Miroir Historial, 2 vols.
A fifteenth-century illuminated French manuscript, the Miroir Historial, a universal history in two volumes made in 1475 for a lay readership and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The pictures are small framed miniatures with gold borders, painted in opaque colours with pale modelled grey-white robes, and a designer could take their compact narrative staging, gold-ground framing and decorated initials as models for historical scenes.
