 The binding and illumination of gospels and homiliaria were both elaborate and artistic.They were frequently deposited in a highly wrought casket ("Arca Testamenti"), which in Ireland was called "cumdach" (shrine).Emperor Constantine the Great presented a text of the Gospels with costly binding to the church of St. John Lateran; and Queen Theodolinda made a similar presentation to the church at Monza (Kraus, "Geschichte der Christlichen Kunst", I, 528).