Spain: 'At the Clarion of the Fifth Angel's Trumpet, a Star Falls from the Sky; the Bottomless Pit is Opened with a Key; Emerging from the Smoke, Locusts Come Upon the Earth and Torment the Deathless'. Illuminated page from a copy of the 'Commentary on the Apocalypse' by Beatus of Liébana, 1180. Commentary on the Apocalypse (Commentaria In Apocalypsin), or the Beatus, was originally an eighth century work by the Spanish monk and theologian Beatus of Liébana. Today, it refers to any of the extant manuscript copies of this work, especially any of the 26 illuminated copies that have survived.

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