The Apocalypse, or Book of Revelation, is not only the last Book
of the New Testament, but its most difficult, puzzling, and
terrifying. It provided challenges to medieval illustrators and
was the source for a number of popular images, such as Christ in
Majesty, the Adoration of the Lamb, and the Madonna of the
Apocalypse and contributed to the widespread use of the
Evangelists' symbols. Selected images from Apocalypse Then:
Medieval Illuminations from the Morgan, an exhibition held at
the Morgan are presented here. The exhibition celebrates the
completion of a facsimile of the Morgan's Las Huelgas
Apocalypse—the latest dated (1220) and largest surviving
manuscript of a Spanish tradition of illuminated commentaries on
the Apocalypse by the monk Beatus of Liébana. The series of
manuscripts constitutes Spain's most important contribution to
medieval manuscript illumination. The Las Huelgas Apocalypse
contains three sections: the prefatory cycle, the Apocalypse,
and the Book of Daniel. In addition to forty-nine