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San Martín de Albelda

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17: 289: 301: 85:—from the Muslim fortress of al-Bayadh (the White), on the site of which it was founded. Its first abbot was named Peter, but on 5 January 925, in a royal privilege granted on the anniversary of its founding, the abbot was Gabellus, suggesting that the monastery had perhaps been attacked during the invasion of 162: 346: 326: 260:
Bishko, 564, writes, "Its unusually rich library and active scriptorium made it in the tenth and early eleventh centuries one of the foremost centers of mediaeval Spanish culture".
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Contemporary depictions (and self-depiction) of three monks of Albelda, the scribes of the Codex Albeldensis, from left to right: Serracino, Vigila, and García (as drawn by Vigila)
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in western Europe (the numbers 1–9, but not 0, are represented). Besides the Godescalcus' copy of Idelphonsus and the Codex Albeldensis there was the
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made their seat in San Martín between 1033 and 1092. The monastery declined after that. Between 1167 and 1180 it was converted to a
336: 170: 135: 16: 42: 279: 341: 139: 206: 134:, a parchment manuscript of 430 folios. It contains the first visual representations of Spanish monarchs (images of 111: 50: 222: 127: 190: 66: 38:. It was an important and advanced cultural centre in Spain and western Europe during the tenth century. 182: 123: 210: 143: 293: 239: 115: 186: 131: 103: 86: 35: 74: 28: 147: 46: 202: 155: 118:
known to history, stopped at the monastery in order that his amanuenses could copy the
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secundum Benedicti regulam uel id quod a sanctis patribus didicisti
161: 160: 15: 107: 130:. In 976 the abbey's scriptorium compiled and illustrated the 110:. In 950 Albelda had two hundred monks when the French bishop 34:, whose ruins now lie within the municipal boundaries of 347:
Religious buildings and structures completed in the 920s
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Christian monasteries established in the 10th century
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Index


Riojan
monastery
Albelda de Iregua
Sancho Garcés I
Toda Aznárez
monarchs of Navarre
reconquest
Nájera
Viguera
Ordoño II of León
Benedictine rule
Abd ar-Rahman III
repoblación
Álava
Castile
Ebro
Godescalcus
Jacobean pilgrimage
Ildephonsus of Toledo
San Prudencio de Laturce
Codex Albeldensis
Sancho Garcés II
Ramiro Garcés
Urraca Fernández
Arabic numerals
Mozarabic rite

Sancho Garcés III
Clavijo

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