UNKNOWN GOLDSMITH, German
(active 1190s in Lower Saxony)

Book Cover

1190s
Wooden core, silver, 30 x 23 cm
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig

The picture shows the book cover of an evangeliar from St- Aegidien. It is of wooden core, silver sheet, gilded, pearls and semi-precious stones, walrus tusk.