Der Ackermann aus Böhmen
A German manuscript of the Ackermann aus Böhmen, a 1470 dialogue by Johannes von Tepl, held by Heidelberg University Library. Its pages are handwritten German text with small painted miniatures set in red-bordered frames, showing a man in a dialogue with Death, a skeleton, in open fields and streets. A designer could take from them the flat colour blocks, red frame borders and simple figure poses of late medieval manuscript painting.
