The prop masters/creators for the film Thor: The Dark World did an excellent job of creating impressive props and set pieces, but for me, one item clearly stands out from the rest. At one point in the film, Thor and Odin flip through a book describing the history of the Ether dark energy, and whose illustrations and illuminations pay homage to Medieval manuscripts from the Carolingian period. The top page in particular is an obvious copy of a Eusebian canon table - concordance-like reference material that was a staple of countless medieval Bibles and New Testaments. The book was clearly influenced by Codex Aureus of Lorsch (aka the "Lorsch Gospels"), a gospels manuscript whose beautiful illuminations and golden-inked cursive script still stand out to this day. (A canon table page from that manuscript is below.)
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