The Evangelistiarium of Charlemagne, 8th century. Group of birds, miniature of Christ in halo with Bible, golden initial letters In Illo Tempere on purple ground, Latin verses, and entry regarding baptism of the emperor's son Pippin at Rome in 781. Chromolithograph after an illustration by John Obadiah Westwood from his own Palaeographia Sacra Pictoria, being a series of Illustrations of the Ancient Versions of the Bible, copied from Illuminated Manuscripts, William Smith, London, 1843.

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