Miscellany of Texts on the Quadrivium
A twelfth-century illuminated manuscript miscellany of texts on the quadrivium, made in an unknown workshop around 1150 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, probably for scholarly and teaching use. The pages show hand-drawn figures of men, animals, a harp, a fish and a bird, with red-ink annotations and diagrams set among dense Latin text, suggesting loose, sketchy linework and marginal annotation a designer could borrow for hand-lettered, medieval-style layouts.
