Breviary
A twelfth-century illuminated breviary, a book of daily prayers and psalms made for church use, produced in a monastic or cathedral scriptorium and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its pages show large decorated initials filled with interlace, scrolling foliage, and bright gold, blue, red and green, alongside circular zodiac-style roundels with small figures and birds. A designer might take the dense interlacing knotwork, the gold-leaf framing, and the way figures and beasts are tucked into letter shapes.
