Marquette Bible, vol. 1
The Marquette Bible, volume 1, is a hand-lettered and illuminated Latin manuscript copied around 1270, probably in France, for church or devotional use. Its pictures are gold-ground historiated initials with flat, saturated blue, red and green painted figures and mourners around a deathbed, framed by black Gothic text blocks, offering a designer examples of medieval framing, colour pairing and strong letterform-and-image layouts.
