Sacramentary
A liturgical manuscript called a sacramentary, made anonymously around 1025, probably for use in a church or monastery for the celebration of the Mass. The pictures are gold-leaf initials filled with interlaced scrollwork, foliate tendrils and blue, green and pink grounds, with some text visible at the edges. A designer could take from them the logic of how decorative capitals fit into a text block, and how dense interlace can fill a letter shape while staying legible.
