The Godescalc Evangelistary, Godescalc Sacramentary, Godescalc Gospels, or Godescalc Gospel Lectionary is an illuminated manuscript in Latin made by the Frankish scribe Godescalc and today kept in the
The Christ in Majesty miniature
Illumination of St. Luke with his symbol, the ox. He is one of the four Evangelists featured in the Godescalc Evangelistary.
The Fountain of Life (left), commemorating the baptism of Charlemagne's son Pepin faced by the Initial page to the Vigil for Christmas (right).
Evangelist portraits are a specific type of miniature included in ancient and mediaeval illuminated manuscript Gospel Books, and later in Bibles and other books, as well as other media. Each Gospel of
Codex Aureus of Lorsch portrait of Mark with his symbol, around 800
Carolingian miniature portraying the Evangelists with their symbols, from the Aachen Gospels, c. 820
Insular, 8th century, now St Gall. Unusually, a single unspecified Evangelist with all four symbols
Virgil from the Roman Virgil, A 5th-century secular author portrait in the classical tradition. Note the scroll-box, although the book it is in is a codex.