León Bible of 960

It is now held in the library of the Basílica de San Isidoro, León - why it moved there is unknown, though the monastery in which it was produced disappeared at the end of the 10th century and so it could have been given to the Basilica during the 11th century by Ferdinand I of Leon and his wife Sancha, the main patrons of the basilica.

[1] Its colophon shows it was completed in the monastery of Valeránica on 19 June 960, copied and illuminated by a copyist named Sanctus and his master Florentius, though it is difficult to distinguish between the two men's work.

It begins with a large full-page image showing Christ and the four symbols of the evangelists in medallions.

The New Testament is less decorated, with ten pages of canon tables and small miniatures of saint Paul at the start of the epistles.

[5] A third influence may be a Jewish manuscript drawing on the wall-paintings in the Dura-Europos synagogue, such as the sacrifice of Isaac or Aaron in front of the tabernacle,[6] though this hypothesis is questioned.