The Emilianense Beatus Codex
Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, Spain, c.940ADBiblioteca Nacional, Madrid
Death of the Two Witnesses?
Source: Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid
The exact date this manuscript was created is unknown, although for its features it is considered from the first half of the 10th century by Peter Klein, the great expert in Beatus, who studied it in depth in the first and most complete monography ever written on any Beatus. Its name comes from the fact it was kept from the 12th to the 19th century in the Beato Emilianense: La bestia que surge de la tierramonastery of San Millán de la Cogolla (La Rioja), but it seems it was illuminated in some other scriptorium, possibly Sahagún or Valeránica, having with the manuscripts of the latter one the most affinities according to several experts.
