Cité de Dieu
A French manuscript of Augustine's City of God, produced around 1440 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, likely made for a courtly or aristocratic reader. Its pages are fully painted with gilded borders, historiated initials and miniatures, with a seated enthroned figure pair under angels and scenes of robed figures holding scrolls. A designer might take the dense gold and blue ornamental borders, the flat jewel-like colour and the framing of text around small narrative pictures.
