Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Commentary
Spain, perhaps Toledo, 1220
MS M.429 fol. 35v

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Daniel: Vision Four Beasts -- Four Beasts, two winged, one with ten heads, each with inscription 1) [...] ALAS AGIE SIGNIFICANS NEC NON HYSMAH ELITARISM, 2) PARDUS UESTI REGNUM ALEXANDRINUM MACEDONUM SIGNIFICAT, 3) IRTUS REGNUM MEDO, 4) QUARTA BESTIA HABEBAT DECEM CORNUA ET EGRESSUS MINIMUSQUE CREUERAT EUULSIT ILLA ALIA CORNUA UIDELICET ANTICHRISTUM QUAM DIU(I)SUM FUERIT ROMANORUM IMPERIUM IN DECEM REGES TUNC MATUSALE ANTICHRISTUM OMNIS OCCIDENS SOLUS SIBI UINDICABIT IMPERIUM; starred background.
Nebuchadnezzar: Dream I -- Stone at feet of image, mountain, inscribed MONS, with gap to right.
Beatus of Valcavado, In Apocalypsin, II, Prolog., 8.