Homiliarium Pauli Diaconi
Homiliarium Pauli Diaconi is a 950 manuscript collection of homilies, probably copied in a Carolingian scriptorium and preserved by the Swiss e-codices virtual library. Its pictures are decorative initials: a brown interlaced letter D built from knotwork and dotted bands, and an orange foliate letter with stylised leaves and a vine-like stem. A designer might take the knotwork bands and the flat two-colour leaf scrolls as models for historical borders and display capitals.
