Der bilderkreis zum Wälschen gaste des Thomasin von Zerclaere, nach den vorhandenen handschriften
A German scholarly study from 1890 by Adolf von Oechelhaeuser, published in Heidelberg by Koester, cataloguing the illustration cycle of Thomasin von Zerclaere's medieval didactic poem Der Wälsche Gast across surviving manuscripts. The pictures are small, hand-traced or photographed medieval miniatures and diagrams: framed scenes of figures in interiors, a tall vertical panel of tiered figures, and a plate of four painted panels with gold grounds and bordered compositions. A designer might draw on their rigid compartmentalised layouts, flat ochre-and-brown palette, and the way text columns sit beside tiny narrative vignettes.
