Missale Basiliense
A Latin missal, a handwritten and painted liturgical manuscript for Mass, made around 1460 in the Basel region for use by the church. The first picture is a heraldic shield in a blue and yellow roundel bearing a Basel library stamp, and the second shows the Crucifixion between the Virgin and Saint John within a gold-patterned border. A designer might take from them the flat heraldic roundel as a simple emblem form and the framed devotional scene with its ornamental vine-and-leaf border as a model for layered, decorative page framing in a limited palette of blue, gold and red.
