Cutting from a choir book
A cutting from a choir book made around 1392 by Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, probably for liturgical use in a church choir. The large pink-outlined initial encloses a gold-ground scene of robed bearded figures and haloed women beneath a canopy, with blue, red and gold tones and ornamental foliage spilling into the margins, offering a designer a model for historiated letters, medieval colour pairings and framed manuscript borders.
