Prayer Book
This is a Latin prayer book made around 1470, with hand-painted text and miniatures in a Flemish or French workshop style, probably for a private devotional owner. The four pages show historiated initials with scenes of an angel and a enthroned Virgin, the Adoration of the Magi, a priest at the altar with a kneeling figure, and a crowd seizing Christ, all framed by curling acanthus borders and gold leaf. A designer could take the tight pairing of illuminated capital letters with scrolling marginal foliage and the bright blue, red and gold palette as a model for ornamental initials.
