Gospel Book
This is a manuscript gospel book of 1615 from the J. Paul Getty Museum, whose record names only the production of artwork as maker. Its pages show Armenian script in rows of ink-brown and red letters beneath arched frames, panels of blue and gold geometric and interlaced patterns, and a haloed evangelist seated at a lectern in a gold-ground miniature. A designer might take from it the dense repeating lattices, the arched window frames, and the layered jewel-toned borders.
