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Historical Archive: Höxter Lexionary Cover oak, bronze and copper both gilt, enamel, rock crystal and other gems 32 x 23.5 cm (12.6 x 9.25 inches) around 1200-1225; medallions Limoges, other metalwork Lower Saxony parts probably assembled into a new cover after 1278 fire; brass clasps later from St. Aegidien, Braunschweig; after secularization Höxter, Katholische Pfarrgemeinde St. Nikolai Paderborn Diocesan Museum PR52 full, frontal full, oblique Virgin and Child battle with harpy, upper medallion battle with harpy, lower medallion