Sacramentary
A Sacramentary, a manuscript of the Mass prayers, made anonymously around 1050 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, probably for use in a church or monastery. The first page is a decorated frame of gilded interlace and small figures enclosing a knotted roundel above a caption band, while the second shows the crucifixion in red and gold with the Virgin and a saint flanking the cross, framed by bright plaited borders; a designer could take the gilded knotwork, the dense red and blue color blocks, and the framing devices as models for ornamental borders.
