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The Codex Calixtinus (or Codex Compostellus) is a manuscript that is the main witness for the 12th-century Liber Sancti Jacobi ('Book of Saint James'), a pseudepigraph attributed to Pope Calixtus II.[1]

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  1. 69 relations: Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, Archive-Library of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Aymeric Picaud, Basilica, Basque language, Battle of Roncevaux Pass, Benedictines, Bookbinding, Camino de Santiago, Catalonia, Catholic Church, Charlemagne, Cluny, Conductus, Crusades, Diego Gelmírez, Ferragut, Fidel Fita, Galicia (Spain), Guide book, Hagiography, James Matamoros, James the Great, Jerusalem, Jesuits, Larry Trask, Libredón, List of codices, Liturgy, Manuscript, Martyr, Middle Ages, Military order (religious society), Milky Way, Miniature (illuminated manuscript), Miracle, Moors, Musicology, Order of Santiago, Padrón, Philip III of Spain, Pilgrim, Polyphony, Pope Callixtus II, Pope Innocent II, Propaganda, Pseudepigrapha, Queen Lupa, Reconquista, Recto and verso, ... Expand index (19 more) »

  2. 1130s books
  3. 12th-century Christian texts
  4. 12th-century illuminated manuscripts
  5. Camino de Santiago
  6. Christian illuminated manuscripts
  7. Culture of Galicia
  8. Philip III of Spain
  9. Pope Callixtus II
  10. Santiago de Compostela

Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos

Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey (Abadía del Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos) is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Santo Domingo de Silos in the southern part of Burgos Province in northern Spain.

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Archive-Library of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela

The Archive-Library of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela is the institution that preserves the documentary and bibliographic heritage of the Chapter and Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, comprising books and documents from the Middle Ages until today; one of the main centers of the world for research on St. Codex Calixtinus and Archive-Library of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela are Santiago de Compostela.

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Aymeric Picaud

Aymeric Picaud was a 12th-century French scholar, monk and pilgrim from Parthenay-le-Vieux in Poitou. Codex Calixtinus and Aymeric Picaud are 12th-century Christian texts and Camino de Santiago.

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Basilica

In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.

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Basque language

Basque (euskara) is the only surviving Paleo-European language spoken in Europe, predating the arrival of speakers of the Indo-European languages that dominate the continent today. Basque is spoken by the Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France.

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Battle of Roncevaux Pass

The Battle of Roncevaux Pass (French and English spelling, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part of Charlemagne's army in Roncevaux Pass, a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the present border between France and Spain, after his invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. Codex Calixtinus and Battle of Roncevaux Pass are matter of France.

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Benedictines

The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Bookbinding

Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana,; O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St. Codex Calixtinus and Camino de Santiago are culture of Galicia and Santiago de Compostela.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814. Codex Calixtinus and Charlemagne are matter of France.

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Cluny

Cluny is a commune in the eastern French department of Saône-et-Loire, in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

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Conductus

The conductus (plural: conducti) was a sacred Latin song in the Middle Ages, one whose poetry and music were newly composed.

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Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.

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Diego Gelmírez

Diego Gelmírez or Xelmírez (Didacus Gelmirici; c. 1069 – c. 1140) was the second bishop (from 1100) and first archbishop (from 1120) of the Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, modern Spain.

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Ferragut

Ferragut (also known as Ferragus, Ferracutus, Ferracute, Ferrakut, Ferraguto, Ferraù, Fernagu) was a character—a Saracen paladin, sometimes depicted as a giant—in texts dealing with the Matter of France, including the Historia Caroli Magni, and Italian epics, such as Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Codex Calixtinus and Ferragut are matter of France.

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Fidel Fita

Fidel Fita Colomé or, in Catalan, Fidel Fita i Colomer (31 December 1835, Arenys de Mar - 13 January 1918, Madrid) was a Spanish-Catalonian archaeologist, philologist, and historian.

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Galicia (Spain)

Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.

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Guide book

A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists".

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Hagiography

A hagiography is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a preacher, priest, founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions.

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James Matamoros

Saint James the Moor-slayer (Santiago Matamoros) is the name given to the representation (painting, sculpture, etc.) of the apostle James the Great, as a legendary, miraculous figure who appeared at the also legendary Battle of Clavijo, helping the Christians conquer the Muslim Moors.

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James the Great

James the Great (Koinē Greek: Ἰάκωβος, romanized: Iákōbos; Aramaic: ܝܥܩܘܒ, romanized: Yaʿqōḇ; died AD 44) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Larry Trask

Robert Lawrence Trask (10 November 1944 – 27 March 2004) was an American-British professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex, and an authority on the Basque language and the field of historical linguistics.

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Libredón

Libredón was a forest, sometimes also described as a mountain, near Santiago de Compostela that according to legend, is where the body of Saint James was laid to rest. Codex Calixtinus and Libredón are Camino de Santiago and Santiago de Compostela.

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List of codices

This is a list of notable codices.

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Liturgy

Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand or typewritten, as opposed to mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Martyr

A martyr (mártys, 'witness' stem, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Military order (religious society)

A military order (militaris ordo) is a Christian religious society of knights.

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Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

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Miniature (illuminated manuscript)

A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare, "to colour with minium", a red lead) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.

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Miracle

A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific lawsOne dictionary defines as: "A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency." and accordingly gets attributed to some supernatural or praeternatural cause.

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Moors

The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Musicology

Musicology (from Greek μουσική 'music' and -λογια, 'domain of study') is the scholarly study of music.

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Order of Santiago

The Order of Santiago (Orden de Santiago) is a religious and military order founded in the 12th century.

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Padrón

Padrón is a concello (Galician for municipality) in the Province of A Coruña, in Galicia (Spain) within the comarca of O Sar.

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Philip III of Spain

Philip III (Felipe III; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain.

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Pilgrim

A pilgrim (from the Latin peregrinus) is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place.

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Polyphony

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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Pope Callixtus II

Pope Callixtus II or Callistus II (– 13 December 1124), born Guy of Burgundy, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 February 1119 to his death in 1124.

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Pope Innocent II

Pope Innocent II (Innocentius II; died 24 September 1143), born Gregorio Papareschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 14 February 1130 to his death in 1143.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.

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Pseudepigrapha

Pseudepigrapha (also anglicized as "pseudepigraph" or "pseudepigraphs") are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed author is not the true author, or a work whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past.

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Queen Lupa

Queen Lupa (also known as Raíña Lupa, Raíña Lopa, Raíña Luparia, Raíña Luca and Raíña Loba) is a character from Galician mythology. Codex Calixtinus and Queen Lupa are Camino de Santiago.

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Reconquista

The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for "reconquest") or the reconquest of al-Andalus was the successful series of military campaigns that European Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by the Umayyad Caliphate.

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Recto and verso

Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet.

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Reims

Reims (also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France.

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Relic

In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past.

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Roland

Roland (*Hrōþiland; Hruodlandus or Rotholandus; Orlando or Rolando; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. Codex Calixtinus and Roland are matter of France.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela

The Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela (Archidioecesis Compostellana) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Spain.

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Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France

UNESCO designated the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France as a World Heritage Site in December 1998.

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Sanctuary

A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine.

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Santa Maria de Ripoll

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll is a Benedictine monastery, built in the Romanesque style, located in the town of Ripoll in Catalonia, Spain.

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Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela, simply Santiago, or Compostela, in the province of A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. Codex Calixtinus and Santiago de Compostela are Camino de Santiago.

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Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

The Santiago de Compostela Arch cathedral Basilica (Spanish and Galician: Catedral Basílica de Santiago de Compostela) is part of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela and is an integral component of the Santiago de Compostela World Heritage Site in Galicia, Spain. Codex Calixtinus and Santiago de Compostela Cathedral are Camino de Santiago and culture of Galicia.

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Scallop

Scallop is a common name that encompasses various species of marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops.

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Seashell

A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea.

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Sermon

A sermon is a religious discourse or oration by a preacher, usually a member of clergy.

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Spanish National Research Council

The Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe.

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Spirituality

The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.

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Testimony

Testimony is a solemn attestation as to the truth of a matter.

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Tilpin

Tilpin, Latin Tilpinus (died 794 or 800), also called Tulpin, a name later corrupted as Turpin, was the bishop of Reims from about 748 until his death.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Walter Muir Whitehill

Walter Muir Whitehill (September 28, 1905 – March 5, 1978) was an American writer, historian, medievalist, preservationist, and the Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum from 1946 to 1973.

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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See also

1130s books

12th-century Christian texts

12th-century illuminated manuscripts

Camino de Santiago

Christian illuminated manuscripts

Culture of Galicia

Philip III of Spain

Pope Callixtus II

Santiago de Compostela

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Calixtinus

Also known as Book of Saint James, Book of St James, Book of St. James, Liber Sancti Iacobi, Liber Sancti Jacobi, Liber peregrinationis, Miracles of Saint James, Theodore and Athanasius.

, Reims, Relic, Roland, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France, Sanctuary, Santa Maria de Ripoll, Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Scallop, Seashell, Sermon, Spanish National Research Council, Spirituality, Testimony, Tilpin, UNESCO, Walter Muir Whitehill, World Heritage Site.