'Ortnit' ; 'Wolfdietrich'
A early 15th-century German heroic epic manuscript, dated 1420, held by Heidelberg University Library and made for a courtly readership of chivalric romance. The first picture shows a knight on a grey horse with a feathered helm and a long lance, painted in flat, lightly shaded colour; the second shows a green-and-gold dragon curling over a hillock beside a block of gothic black-letter text with a large red initial, offering designers a model for hand-coloured medieval woodcut-like line and loose watercolour fill.
