Illuminated initial letters showing end of 8th century French costume. Jesus Christ with evangelists Luke and Paul in Q, Annunciation scene with Mary and an angel in O. Initiales Historiees, France, VIIIe siecle (fin). Taken from a manuscript formerly kept at the Abbey of Saint-Medard de Soissons. MS 686 Sup. Latin, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Chromolithograph after Mathieu from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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