Invention et translation du corps de Saint Antoine
This is a 1465 illuminated manuscript of the Invention and Translation of the Body of Saint Anthony, a French devotional text held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, made for a devout lay or clerical reader. Its framed miniatures show narrative scenes of miracles, a procession and a burial in grisaille-tinted pictures within richly painted gold and floral borders. A designer could take from them the tight panel layouts, the gold-leaf ornamental frames and the restrained grey-and-jewel palette used to tell a story in sequence.
