De Vita et Conversatione Anselmi Cantuariensis
A twelfth-century illuminated manuscript of a Latin life of Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, made around 1140 in England and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, probably for a monastic or clerical reader. The first two pictures show a seated scholar at a lectern and an enthroned figure framed by arches and drapery, painted in soft ochre, green, red and blue on parchment. The third is a blue and green initial D filled with white interlace and acanthus scrolls, a model for flowing ornamental letterforms and framed capitals.
