Gospel Book
This Ethiopian illuminated Gospel book, made around 1504 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, was painted by unknown artists for liturgical use. Its pictures show an evangelist seated with a writing tablet inside a border of interlace, cross motifs and gold-yellow scrollwork, in flat red, ochre and green on vellum; a designer might take the bold outlines, dotted patterning and framed page layouts.
