Codex Aureus of Echternach

Codex Aureus of Echternach, around 1030, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. The Golden Gospels of the Benedictine abbey of Echternach, made in the first half of the 11th century. Its full-page miniatures each tell a story in three scenes, and folio 78r is the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, read from top to bottom. The rich man feasts while the beggar Lazarus sits naked outside his door, Lazarus is welcomed by Abraham in Paradise, and at the bottom the rich man's soul is dragged down into a hell of red flame.