Cruxifiction of Christ from a Franco-Saxon manuscript, mid-9th century. Jesus on the cross with halo, with medallions of the Sun and Moon, title Jesus Nazarenus Rex Judaeorum. Two men in costume of the Gauls, Longinus stabbing Jesus with a spear, and executioner offering water on a sponge. Mort du Christ, France, IXe siecle (milieu). From a book of Gospels, written and decorated in the Franco-Saxon style, MS 257 Anciens Fonds Latin, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Chromolithograph by Mathieu after Gsell from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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