Six Cuttings from Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Livre des propriétés des choses
This is a French vernacular encyclopedia of natural and human knowledge, the Livre des propriétés des choses by Bartholomaeus Anglicus, here in six cuttings made around 1400 by the illuminator Perrin Remiet and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The miniatures are gold-ground and jewel-patterned, with saturated blue, red and ochre fields, flat figures in simple robes, and tidy architectural vignettes, offering a designer medieval patterned backgrounds, framed roundels, and a limited palette of blue, vermilion and gold.
