Eneas
Eneas is a German verse retelling of the Aeneid by Heinrich von Veldeke, copied in 1419 and held by Heidelberg University Library, with its text in black and red script under painted scenes. The pictures show late medieval armoured knights, crowned figures on horseback and a wooden tower with figures at a window, drawn in flat, outlined colour with soft pinks and greens. A designer could take from them the simple layered colour, bold contour lines and clear figure silhouettes of early German manuscript painting.
