true treasure, this precious illuminated manuscript commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John, was made in the workshop of copyists of the Abbey of Saint-Sever in the mid-eleventh century (between 1060 and 1070), then Gregory Montaner was the abbot.
C is for text, a written transcript of a English monk of the eighth century from which it derives the name of Beatus. But the main interest is art, because of
many illuminations that illustrate. Its 292 folios, in fact it has 108 historical miniatures including 84 full page, or even five on two pages. 
Only manuscript copied in the Romanesque period in France, it is, since 1790, kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale (current BNF).
The entire miniature was put online in 2001:
official website developed by the city of Saint-Sever see also
on the site
churches Landes
Abbey of Saint-Sever.
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