Les manuscrits a miniatures de la Bibliotheque de Laon; etudies au point de vue de leur illustration ..
A study of illuminated manuscripts held by the Bibliothèque de Laon, written by Édouard Fleury and printed at Laon in 1863 for scholars and antiquarians interested in medieval book decoration. The plates show ornamental initials, interlace borders and zoomorphic letterforms drawn in line from Carolingian-era manuscripts, labelled by century from the fourth to the ninth. A designer could draw on the knotwork capitals, animal-filled initials and banded frames as source material for lettering and border systems.
