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This is a St. Luke page in the Lichfield Gospels, an early hiberno-saxon manuscript. Could anyone identify what Luke is holding across his chest or the symbolism of it?
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>>1423954 https://www.hubert-herald.nl/EIRE.htm#Hlt202247155earlysymbols says it more likely depicts the contemporary irish king flaithbertach mac loingsig instead of luke>On page 218 is a picture of a man, usually determined as St. Luke because of the winged bull depicted above his head. >However, the person depicted is sitting on a (lion’s) throne and has two sceptres in his hands. Behind his head is a corona which makes him a prince of the Empire. >This makes it very improbable that St Luke is depicted because this evangelist is never bearing royal paraphernalia. >Of the sceptres our man is holding, the golden cross charged with a corona may symbolize his spiritual power (in Ireland). The other sceptre, consisting of a thunderbolt, may symbolize his temporal power.
