Ovid, Excerpts from Heroides; Octavien de Saint-Gelais, Letters
This is a late fifteenth-century French illuminated manuscript of Ovid's Heroides and Octavien de Saint-Gelais's letters, made in 1493 by the Master of the Chronique scandaleuse for a courtly patron and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The pictures show gilded backgrounds, rich blue and red robes, and small architectural settings with framed French verse text, offering a designer models of medieval manuscript borders, gold-patterned grounds, and layered garment colour.
