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The Silos Beatus Codex

Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, Spain, 1090-1109AD
British Library Add. MS 11695.

f.102v The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

A larger detail of the first two horsemen of the Apocalypse, Silos Beatus Codex.

Photo by Elizabeth Uhlig

The manuscript was copied in 1090 and the illuminations completed in 1109 in the Spanish monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, near Burgos.

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Referenced on p 323 Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages by Edward Lewes Cutts
In the Additional MS. 11,695, on folio 102 v., are four armed men on horseback, habited in hauberks without hoods. Two of them have the sleeves extending to the wrist, two have loose sleeves to the elbow only, showing that the two fashions were worn contemporaneously. They all have mail hose; one of them is armed with a bow, the rest with the sword.