Iohannes de Imola, Lectura super Clementinas
A manuscript commentary on canon law, the Lectura super Clementinas by Giovanni da Imola, copied around 1450, probably in Italy, for university students and jurists. The pictures are hand-painted initials: a large blue and red inscribed letter B with a trailing penstroke, and a gold-framed blue oval holding a stylised red and green plant motif with pink acanthus-like scrolls, both set beside rubricated and black text columns, offering a designer ideas for historic illuminated initials and medieval page layouts.
