Psalter with Nicholas of Lyra’s commentary (in German)
A German-language psalter with Nicholas of Lyra's commentary, dated 1450 and held in a Swiss manuscript collection, probably made for a religious or scholarly reader. The picture is a painted heraldic shield divided vertically into a yellow field with a red rampant lion and a red field with a pale arm holding up an open hand, rendered in flat hand-coloured tones with dark outlines; a designer might borrow its bold two-field division and simple emblem shapes for a crest or identity mark.
