Sigenot
Sigenot is a German verse romance in manuscript, made around 1470 and held by Heidelberg University Library, written for a courtly audience of readers. Its pictures are small framed scenes above columns of German text, showing armoured knights, a wild man and a slender youth in plain flat colour with simple ground lines. A designer could take from them the compact layout of image above text and the restrained medieval palette of red, green and ochre.
