1-631-032 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Emperor Charlemagne (742-814), 1849. The Motto, In scelus exurgo, sceleris discrimina purgo, is written on a scroll round the sword held in his right hand. A 19th century version of an original miniature in the Registers of the University of Paris (Archives of the Minister of Public Instruction of the University). From Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, Ferdinand Séré and A Rivaud, Volume I (Paris, 1849).