Miroir Historial
The Miroir Historial is a French illuminated manuscript of 1475, a vernacular history compiled from scripture and chronicle, made in a Franco-Flemish workshop and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its painted miniatures show gospel scenes, a crowned ruler with kneeling supplicant, and a crowd torturing a seated man in interiors and landscapes, with gold-leaf borders and decorated initials; a designer might borrow the framed narrative panels, gilded frames and ornamental capitals for period-styled layouts.
