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Commentary on the Apocalypse and commentary on the Book of Daniel (MS M.429)

085. MS M.429, fol. 41r
086. MS M.429, fol. 41v
087. MS M.429, fol. 42r
088. MS M.429, fol. 42v
089. MS M.429, fol. 43r
090. MS M.429, fol. 43v
091. MS M.429, fol. 44r
092. MS M.429, fol. 44v
093. MS M.429, fol. 45r
094. MS M.429, fol. 45v
095. MS M.429, fol. 46r
096. MS M.429, fol. 46v

The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation, is not only the last Book of the New Testament, but its most difficult, puzzling, and terrifying. It provided challenges to medieval illustrators and was the source for a number of popular images, such as Christ in Majesty, the Adoration of the Lamb, and the Madonna of the Apocalypse and contributed to the widespread use of the Evangelists' symbols.

The Morgan's Las Huelgas Apocalypse, is the latest dated (1220) and largest surviving manuscript of a Spanish tradition of illuminated commentaries on the Apocalypse by the monk Beatus of Liébana. The series of manuscripts constitutes Spain's most important contribution to medieval manuscript illumination.

The Las Huelgas Apocalypse contains three sections: the prefatory cycle, the Apocalypse, and the Book of Daniel.