2/10 Santi di Spagna

This extraordinary 1564 manuscript containing the works of John Mauropous, preserved at the Real Biblioteca del Escorial, is one of the only 9 extant copies of Mauropus’s works, the oldest one being from the 9th century (Vat. Graec. 676). The Escorial codex contains 99 epigrams describing icons and religious festivals, but also varied other topics (doctrinal, politic and literary) and lamentations for the dead, etc. It was moved to the Escorial Monastery Library upon request by Philip II, together with other Latin and Greek manuscripts.


Saint FROILAN, évêque de Léon en Vieille-Castille (1006).