Codex Calixtinus de la Universidad de Salamanca MS. 2631

S. Jacob codex
Liber Sancti Jacobi

Burgos, Siloé, arte y bibliofilia, 2011

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Text

2 volumes

color illustrations, music

35 cm

The Music Library

Title from colophon.
Facsimile of the Salamanca copy of the Codex Calixtinus, known as Ms. S, dating from approximately 1325.
"Depósito legal: V-4135-2011.
Single line staff in red provided for the office of Saint James; pitches never written in.
Includes the Pseudo-Turpin (Historia Karoli Magni et Rotholandi) (leaves 91-107).
Illuminations include: portrait of Pope Calixtus-missing (folio 1); St. James as pilgrim (folio 2v); Charlemagne's dream, Charlemagne and the army setting out with Roland carrying a banner, Charlemagne's army brandishing spears (folio 90); Turpin witnessing the tranportation to heaven of the souls of the dead warriors of Roncesvalles (f. 91v); James Matamoros (folio 120).
Limited edition of 898 copies, signed and notarized by Juan Francisco Jiménez Martin, notary of the Colegio de Castilla y León; issued in slipcase.

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