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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.194r. A knight, Book of Revelation, Chapter 19



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

David Nicolle identifies the figure as Goliath.

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