[1] This is a well-dated manuscript whose origin is identified through its colophon, which indicates that it was completed in 1189 in the scriptorium of the Lorvão monastery in the present municipality of Penacova, near Coimbra.

It remained preserved in the abbey until the nineteenth century, including while the monastery changed denomination in 1205 and hosted a Cistercian community.

[2] It is one of eleven manuscripts of Beatus in the Iberian record of the Memory of the World Register by UNESCO in 2015.

[2]These illustrations were considered archaic for the time, marked by a thick stroke and colors dominated by orange and yellow.

They may have been copied from an older model, perhaps close to the original manuscript written by Beatus of Liebana.