Psalter
A medieval illuminated psalter, made anonymously around 1250 and likely for liturgical or devotional use. The pictures are painted initials on gold grounds, with a figure in bed being attended by a physician in one and a seated man beside a dragon-like creature in the other. A designer could draw on their flat gold backgrounds, interlaced blue and red borders, and decorative letterforms, with the historiated initial as a model for framing a figure inside a letter.
