Initiales Historiées, France VIII Siècle (single plate from 'Les Arts Somptuaires')

Reproduction from the 8th Century illuminated French manuscript, L'Évangéliaire de Saint-Médard de Soissons. Approx. 10.75 x 8.5 inches, in very good condition. Beautiful metallic sheen and remarkable detail. Original chromolithograph from Les Arts Somptuaires: Histoire du Costume et de l'Ameublement et des Arts et Industries qui s'y rattachent sous la Direction de Hangard-Mauge Dessins de Cl'us Ciappori by Charles Louandre. This is from a disbound copy of the rare plates volume, which featured hundreds of images in various subjects designed by Claudius Ciappori and printed by the master Hangard-Maugé in Paris, 1857-58.