Missal
A manuscript missal of about 1500, its author unknown, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum and made for liturgical use in the church. The pictures show a Crucifixion scene with gold leaf, a landscape of distant towns and hills, and a text page with a large blue initial and text in columns framed by curling acanthus borders; a designer might take the gold grounds, the jewel-coloured borders and the dense black-letter text block as models for period ornament.
