Antiphonal
A thirteenth-century illuminated choir book, an antiphonal of unknown authorship, made around 1260 and likely for liturgical singing in a monastic or church setting. The pictures are small painted initials and marginal figures in gold, red, blue and ochre on vellum, with a hare playing a harp and a woman in a blue dress holding a stack of tablets. A designer might draw on their flat decorative scrolls, interlaced foliage and charming animal figures for editorial or pattern work.
