Two Cuttings from a Missal
Two leaves cut from a late fifteenth-century liturgical manuscript, a missal, painted by an unknown artist and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The pictures are painted miniatures set within large initial letters, the first showing the Adoration of the Magi and the second the Presentation in the Temple. Both are framed by curling acanthus scrolls in blue, green and gold leaf, and a designer could take their dense ornamental borders and rich blue and gold palette as a model for decorative framing.
