Prayer book for Countess Anna von Montfort-Wasserburg-Rothenfels
A late fifteenth-century illuminated prayer book of 1489 made for Countess Anna von Montfort-Wasserburg-Rothenfels, preserved in a Swiss manuscript library and painted with gold-leaf borders and small devotional scenes. The pictures are saints, Christ and sacred episodes rendered in saturated blues, reds and gold, with simple architectural settings and gilded haloes; a designer might take the flat gold ornament, dense blue grounds and framed vignette layout as a model for decorative borders and devotional motifs.
