Beschreibung der ehemals zu Aachen aufbewahrten drey kaiserlichen Krönungs-Zierden, des lateinischen Evangelienbuches, des arabischen Säbels Karls des Großen und der Capsul mit der Erde, worauf das Blut des heiligen Stephans soll geflossen seyn
An 1801 German antiquarian description by Christoph Gottlieb von Murr, held by Heidelberg University Library, cataloguing three imperial coronation regalia once kept at Aachen, including Charlemagne's Arabic sabre and a reliquary capsule. Its plates are engraved views for a scholarly readership of historians and collectors. Designers may draw on the engraved architectural framing with spiral columns, arched canopy and draped swags, and on the crisp hatched linework of the ornamental metalwork plates.
