Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World)
A fifteenth-century French manuscript of travel and marvels, illuminated around 1460 by the Master of the Geneva Boccaccio and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, written for a courtly reader. Its pages pair dense black-letter French text with small framed miniatures of sea voyages, strange coastal scenes, and crowds on shore, painted in saturated blues, reds, and gold leaf. A designer might borrow the boxed panel layout, the flat decorative ground, and the jewel-toned palette for a narrative spread.
