One of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant; David playing on a harp; and a priest carrying the host and ciborium.鈥極ne of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant (47); David playing on a harp (48); and a priest carrying the host in his right hand and the ciborium in his left (49).'Images taken from Saxon manuscripts. Saxon artists were the first to depict choir habits decorated with the cross. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's 鈥楬istorical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages' (1796).