Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Cover, front: Ivory plaque, Christ and Four Beasts
England, 925-950
MS M.319a fol.

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Christ and Four Beasts -- Christ, nimbed, beardless, scroll in left hand, right hand raised in blessing, feet on footstool (suppedaneum), sits on arc decorated with foliate ornament, flanked by four beasts, nimbed (the angel represented as half figure), winged, holding books.