Stammheim Missal
The Stammheim Missal is a illuminated liturgical service book for the Mass, made in the early twelfth century in the Rhineland, probably Cologne, for a church's clergy rather than a general reader. Its pages show richly coloured initials, framed diagram-like medallions with scrolling banding, and small scenes of biblical stories set in gold-ground and jewel-toned compartments, offering a designer ideas for medieval ornament, interlace borders, and tiered narrative layouts.
