Table of the Antichrist, 12th-century manuscript. Created in Spain, this religious manuscript is a later copy of the works of Beatus of Liebana, an 8th-century Asturian monk. This page is a table attempting to calculate the 'number of the beast' (the Antichrist, sometimes identified with the Devil) as portrayed by Saint John in the Apocalypse (Book of Revelation). Saint John asserted that the number of the beast was 666, and here eight names given to the Antichrist are lettered in red in vertical columns. Each letter is assigned a number, and the total given is 666, written four times diagonally in the centre of the table. The manuscript consists of tempera, gold, and ink on parchment.