Book-Shaped Reliquary

c. 1000 · The Master of the Registrum Gregorii (German, active c. 972–1000)

ivory, silver: gilded, pearls, rubies, emeralds, crystals, onyx, carnelian, oak

Cleveland Museum of Art · Medieval Art · CC0 · The Cleveland Museum of Art

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