The moost excellent treatise of the thre kynges of Coleyne
The moost excellent treatise of the thre kynges of Coleyne is a late fifteenth-century English printed book, a Middle English translation of the legend of the Three Kings of Cologne, printed at Westminster by Wynkyn de Worde around 1499 for a general readership of devout lay buyers. Its woodcut pictures show the Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin and Child, crowned kings and kneeling attendants in a half-timbered townscape, and a bold black-line style with dense cross-hatching that a designer could borrow for medieval-style illustration and decorative borders.
