Luke the Evangelist, one of the four authors of the gospels, AD. Seated on a chair, right hand dipping a quill pen in an inkwell and left hand holding a book. Wearing late 8th century French costume. S. Luc Evangeliste, 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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