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Commentary on the Apocalypse (MS M.644)

109. 109, MS M.644, fol. 47r
110. 110, MS M.644, fol. 47v
111. 111, MS M.644, fol. 48r
112. 112, MS M.644, fol. 48v
113. 113, MS M.644, fol. 49r
114. 114, MS M.644, fol. 49v
115. 115, MS M.644, fol. 50r
116. 116, MS M.644, fol. 50v
117. 117, MS M.644, fol. 51r
118. 118, MS M.644, fol. 51v
119. 119, MS M.644, fol. 52r
120. 120, MS M.644, fol. 52v

St. Beatus of Liébana completed his commentary about 776. The long cycles of pictures accompanying it constitute the greatest achievement of medieval Spanish illumination. The Morgan Beatus is important because it is the earliest complete copy and thus stands at the beginning of the Beatus tradition. Although the book was ordered for Escalada (consecrated in 913), it was not made there, as Maius worked in the tower scriptorium at San Salvador de Tábara, where he died and was buried in 968. Maius tells us he made the book so that the "wise may fear the coming of the future judgment of the world's end."