Psalter, Parabole, Ecclesiastes, Cantica canticorum, Sapienta, Ecclesiasticus, Propheten
A 1477 German manuscript of biblical and wisdom texts, including Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Prophets, held by Heidelberg University Library and likely made for a religious or scholarly reader. Its pages pair dense columns of gothic black-letter text with small framed miniatures of robed figures in red, blue and green, set in simple architectural settings such as walls, towers and courtyards. A designer might take from them the flat, layered colour blocks, the tight framing of narrative scenes and the decorative red and blue initials and line fillers.
