Commentary
In Apocalypsin (Commentary on the Apocalypse)
Beatus of Liébana
Commentary on the Apocalypse compiled by Beatus, a monk of Liébana in Asturias, in the late eighth century, printed by Enrique Flórez in 1770. Book IV reckons that the sixth age of the world ends in the Spanish Era 838 (800 CE).
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Edition and location
Beatus of Liébana, Commentary on the Apocalypse, book IV, chapter VII, in Enrique Flórez (ed.), Sancti Beati presbyteri hispani Liebanensis in Apocalypsin ac plurimas utriusque foederis paginas commentaria (Madrid: Joachin Ibarra, 1770), p. 322 (Biblioteca Digital de Castilla y León, image 374 of 641). Transcribed from the page image; the library’s OCR layer was used to locate the passage. Flórez’s accents (à, verò), ligatures (æ) and ampersands retained; italics of the scripture quotations not distinguished; line-end hyphenation joined; Flórez’s note marker “(1)” after V.CCXXVII omitted (it refers to his prologue, n. 66, on these figures); marginal references omitted. Followed in the note by a new AI-assisted English translation (Rainbow Watch, 2026), labelled as such.
Book IV, ch. VII, Flórez ed. p. 322