Missal
A Missal, a liturgical service book for Mass, made anonymously around 1180 and probably for use in a church or monastery. The first picture is a large gilded and blue historiated initial with flourished tendrils and red and blue rubrics beside Latin text, while the second is a full-page gold-ground Crucifixion framed by inscribed bands of blue and gold; a designer might draw on the interlaced ornament and the flat gold, jewel-like palette of these medieval manuscript pages.
