Book Cover Plaque with Christ in Majesty and the Symbols of the Four Evangelists

Inscription: Engraved, top left, inside relief: IN / PRI / NCI / PIO / ERA / T V[ERBUM] (In the beginning was the Word [John 1:1])

Top right, inside relief: LI . B[ER] / GE / NE / RA[TIONIS] (The book of the generation [Matthew 1:1])

Bottom left, inside relief: EC / CE / EGO / MIT[TO] (Behold, I send [my angel] [Mark 1:1])

Bottom right, inside relief: FV / IT / IN / DI[EBVS] (There was in the days [Luke 1:5])

[ Frédéric Spitzer (Austrian), Paris (sold 1893)]; his posthumous sale, Chevallier & Mannheim, Paris (April 17–June 16, 1893, no. 67); Edmond Foulc, Paris (from 1893); J. Pierpont Morgan (American), London and New York (until 1913)

La Collection Spitzer: Antiquité, Moyen-Age, Renaissance. Vol. I. Mâcon: Imprimerie Protat Frères, 1890–1891. Ivoire 32, p. 34.

Spitzer, Frédéric, ed. La Collection Spitzer: Antiquité -- Moyen-Age -- Renaissance. Vol. 1. Paris: Maison Quantin, 1890–1893. Ivoire 32, p. 40, ill. in text.

Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité: antiques, du moyen-âge & de la renaissance: composant l'importante et précieuse Collection Spitzer. Vol. 1. Paris: Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17–June 16, 1893. no. 67, p. 14, pl. III.

Molinier, Emile. Les Ivoires. Histoire générale des arts appliqués à l'industrie, Vol. 1. Paris: Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 1896. p. 171.

Breck, Joseph. "Pre-Gothic Ivories in the Pierpont Morgan Collection." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, o.s., 15, no. 1 (January 1920). p. 15.

Goldschmidt, Adolph. Die Elfenbeinskulpturen aus der romanischen Zeit, XI.-XIII. Jahrhundert. Vol. 4. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1926. no. 270, p. 55, pl. LXXIII.

Breck, Joseph, and Meyric R. Rogers. The Pierpont Morgan Wing: A Handbook. 2nd ed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929. p. 48.

Verdier, Philippe. "The twelfth-century chasse of St. Ode from Amay." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch: Westdeutsches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 42 (1981). p. 67, fig. 50, note 198a.