Der handschriftenschmuck Augsburgs im xv. jahrhundert
A 1900 Strassburg study by Ernst Wilhelm Bredt of illuminated manuscript decoration in fifteenth-century Augsburg, a scholarly art-historical monograph aimed at specialists in book illumination. Its pictures are reproduced from medieval manuscripts and show walled towns, horsemen and crossbowmen, a scribe at a desk, and rural scenes with farmers and pigs, rendered in loose pen and wash with flat colour. A designer could take from them the compact layouts of town views, the figure groupings in narrow framed panels, and the tilted captioned scenes that show how text and image shared a page.
