Beatus of Liebana was an eighth century Spanish monk who wrote an influential text called the Commentary on the Apocalypse. In the eleventh century, two monks at the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, Cantabria, copied this text into a book of holy texts. Later monks of the same monastery added the wonderful illustrations. The manuscript is now in the British Museum. Detail of the dragon image above. Daniel in the lions' den. Adoration of the Lamb. Two of the Four Horsemen.
