centuriespast:

Gilt silver, enamel, and jeweled bookcover
[Probably Salzburg, ca. 760–90]
Earlier binding used as lower cover on Lindau Gospels, Abbey of St. Gall, Switzerland, late ninth century

The Morgan Library

fairytalesandfrills:

Iron Crown, Carolingian, 9th C. A.D

(via acheiropoietos)

centuriespast:

Roundel with a Personification of the Moon

Date: ca. 860–890

Culture: Carolingian
The Metropolitan Museum

… vita detestabilis

Nunc obdurat, et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem,

Egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem

Sors immanis et inanis, rotatu volubilis…

gardant:

Plaques from a Reliquary
early 13th century
Workshop of the Master of the Virgin Mary’s Reliquary Casket, Aachen
Metropolitan Museum of Art 

(via acheiropoietos)

aleyma:

Triptych pendant depicting the martyrdrom of St Barbara, with Mary Magdalen and St Gereon on the wings. Made in Cologne, Germany in 1504 (source).