Les Visions du chevalier Tondal
A French manuscript of Les Visions du chevalier Tondal, a visionary travel narrative of the afterlife, made around 1475 and probably for a lay patron of the Burgundian-Flemish court circle. Its miniatures show an angel guiding a naked soul through a gilded, flower-filled border, with dense two-column black-letter text beneath each scene. A designer might take the saturated blue, red and gold palette and the ornate foliage frames built from curling acanthus and strawberry sprays.
