(Band 2)
This is a German manuscript of Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the second volume, copied around 1443 and held by Heidelberg University Library. Its pictures are small, hand-coloured, and full-length, with figures in fashionable armour, hats, and robes standing on grass against a plain page with red-lettered German captions. A designer might take from them the simple flat colour, the outlined figure poses, and the layered red and blue costume palette of late medieval courtly dress.
