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Plate 1-XCIII
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PLATE XLVI.
THE FOUR EVANGELISTS.
Fig. 12. As early as the 5th century the Evangelists were represented in their human forms,
though with hardly an attempt at any individual distinction, and with their names
written above them. They are still accompanied by their Symbols, and each one
holds an open book. From the Church of S. Giovanni Laterano, Rome ; 462. (4.)
13. In this instance the Symbols appear alone, and are holding the books, as emblems of
their mission. From the Church of S. Praxede, Rome; 9th century. The types
of this and succeeding periods vary but little from those of the earliest, and appear
to have been copied from one another. (4.)
14. The earliest type, that of the Four Books, appears again in a representation of the
9th century, from a book of the Gospels that belonged to the Emperor Lothaire.
The two birds are probably only ornamental, and the Monogram is placed at the
four corners. (11.)
15. This strange figure might have been considered as the Symbol of St. John rather than
of St. Luke, were it not for the name being written on the Gospel he holds in
his hand, for the head is as much like that of the Eagle as the Ox. It is a rude
representation of the 10th century, from a MS. in the Bodleian.*
* In the Bible of William Bufus, in the Library of writing their Gospels. I regret not to have been able to
Winchester Cathedral, there are interesting represent- give these examples, as they are unlike any I have met
ations, in outline, of the Evangelists with human bodies, with elsewhere.
but with the heads of the symbolic Creatures, engaged in
PLATE XLVI.
THE FOUR EVANGELISTS.
Fig. 12. As early as the 5th century the Evangelists were represented in their human forms,
though with hardly an attempt at any individual distinction, and with their names
written above them. They are still accompanied by their Symbols, and each one
holds an open book. From the Church of S. Giovanni Laterano, Rome ; 462. (4.)
13. In this instance the Symbols appear alone, and are holding the books, as emblems of
their mission. From the Church of S. Praxede, Rome; 9th century. The types
of this and succeeding periods vary but little from those of the earliest, and appear
to have been copied from one another. (4.)
14. The earliest type, that of the Four Books, appears again in a representation of the
9th century, from a book of the Gospels that belonged to the Emperor Lothaire.
The two birds are probably only ornamental, and the Monogram is placed at the
four corners. (11.)
15. This strange figure might have been considered as the Symbol of St. John rather than
of St. Luke, were it not for the name being written on the Gospel he holds in
his hand, for the head is as much like that of the Eagle as the Ox. It is a rude
representation of the 10th century, from a MS. in the Bodleian.*
* In the Bible of William Bufus, in the Library of writing their Gospels. I regret not to have been able to
Winchester Cathedral, there are interesting represent- give these examples, as they are unlike any I have met
ations, in outline, of the Evangelists with human bodies, with elsewhere.
but with the heads of the symbolic Creatures, engaged in