MINIATURIST, Spanish
(active around 1180)

Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse

c. 1180
Manuscript (1991.232), 448 x 298 mm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The picture shows a leaf from a copy of the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana. It was produced in the Monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña, Burgos.

Below the representation of Christ in Majesty, the angel of God orders St John to write the Apocalypse (the Book of revelation).