Illustrated Vita Christi, with devotional supplements
A devotional manuscript of the life of Christ, illuminated around 1190 with gold-ground miniatures and Latin text beneath, likely made for a religious or monastic reader. The pictures show gathered crowds in flowing robes against gold grounds, with bold blue, red and ochre modelling, and a designer might take from them the layered use of gold leaf, ornamental initial borders, and tightly grouped figures set within arched frames.
