Front cover from a gospel codex in Darmstadt Museum with a crucifixion scene in ivory, 1000-1050, within an engraved silver border 1490-1510. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1879. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by Joh. Klipphahn, and published by Heinrich Keller. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

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