Composite Manuscript: Garin le Loherain, Perceval, Chroniques, Parthenopeus de Blois, Durmart le Gaulois etc., French
A thirteenth-century French composite manuscript of Old French verse romances and chronicles, including Garin le Loherain and Perceval, copied around 1250 and held by a Swiss library, written for a literate lay or aristocratic reader. Its pictures are decorated initials in red, brown and blue ink, with pen-flourished interlace and curling ornament inside large letter forms beside columns of gothic script, offering a designer historical models for medieval hand-drawn initials and page layout.
