Vidal Mayor
Vidal Mayor is a late thirteenth-century legal manuscript, a Spanish-language Aragonese law compilation copied around 1290 in an unnamed workshop for a legal or royal readership, now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its illuminated initials and marginal scenes show gold-ground framing, flat saturated blues and reds, and figures in robes and chainmail standing in tense exchanges, useful for designers seeking medieval manuscript borders, gilded initials, and courtly narrative panels.
