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Illustrations from the:

Rylands Beatus

Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana,
Castile (Burgos?), copy of c.1175


The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The army on lion-headed horses



Jerusalem /
Death of the two witnesses

Where kings or merchants lament for Babylon


The Antichrist

Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem

Jerusalem under siege

Sources: John Rylands University Library Image Collections and sandracoelho.com.br
At one time it was in the library of the Marquis d'Astorga.



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