Des cleres et nobles femmes; Le livre de la Cité des Dames
A fifteenth-century French manuscript, Christine de Pizan's Le livre de la Cité des Dames, made around 1470 for a patron and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The pictures are framed miniatures and dense black-letter text blocks with painted initials, rubrics and border decoration. A designer might take from them the layout of gilded initials, red and blue rubrication and the way narrow painted scenes sit within columns of script.
