Fables; Exemplum de Tribus Latronibus; Defensio Curatorum Adversus Fratres Mendicantes, 1357; De Balsamo (Ch. 7 of De Mirabilibus); homilies on the Gospel of Luke; De septem sacramentis; and others
This is a fifteenth-century compilation of fables, moral tales and religious treatises, with pages of text in Latin and German and hand-painted miniatures, made around 1450 for readers of devotional and didactic writing. The pictures are small, tinted pen-and-ink scenes set in the margins and between text blocks, with animals acting as human characters; a designer could take from them the simple flat staging, earthy palette of ochre, green and red, and the economical way each scene uses a single tree or house as a setting.
























