Bestiary
This is a Latin illuminated bestiary made in England around 1270 for a clerical or aristocratic reader, now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its framed miniatures sit above two columns of script, each set against gold-leaf and patterned grounds, showing animals and a hunter in simple, outlined forms. A designer might borrow the flat diaper backgrounds, the gold leaf accents and the rounded, bordered picture frames for medieval-style pattern work.
