'Rosengarten zu Worms' ; 'Lucidarius'
This is a German manuscript of the Rosengarten zu Worms, a heroic epic about knights, copied around 1420 and held by Heidelberg University Library. The four pictures show pairs of armoured fighters in pale grass before a flowering vine, drawn in ink and bright colours with red rubrics above the text. A designer could take from them the flat, decorative layout of medieval illumination, with paired figures set against a repeating floral field.
