Österreichische Chronik der 95 Herrschaften
This is a German-language illuminated manuscript chronicle of Austrian rulers, written and painted around 1479 and held by a Swiss library; its pages pair dense black-letter text with small coloured framed scenes. The first picture shows a mailed knight with a shield bearing a black eagle, a clear model for heraldic emblems. The later scenes of walled towns, horsemen and skirmishes in bright ochre, green and red suggest simple, flat medieval narrative illustration a designer could adapt for historical motifs.
