Mélanges d'archéologie, d'histoire et de littérature, rédigés ou recueillis
A mid-nineteenth-century French archaeological miscellany by Charles Cahier, published in Paris in 1847 by Mme Ve Poussielgue-Rusand, aimed at scholars and antiquaries of medieval art. Its plates show medieval church decoration: a gabled panel of carved figures, a purple and green roundel pattern, a red textile with paired birds in a diamond frame, and a sheet of grotesque bestiary creatures and foliage. A designer could draw on the flat, tightly repeated medieval pattern systems, the paired-bird and roundel motifs, and the hybrid beast forms.
