Divinae Institutiones; De Ira Dei; De Opificio; De Ave Phoenice
This is a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript of Lactantius's theological treatises, produced in 1456 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, likely made for a learned or clerical reader. The two pictures show a bearded, crowned figure in profile against a blue sky with gold rays, wearing a blue mantle over a yellow robe while another figure's hand rests on his shoulder. A designer might take the flat gold-leaf framing, the saturated blue and yellow palette, and the stylised cloud bands as a model for sacred or medieval-inspired graphics.
