Die Miniaturen in den Basler Bibliotheken, Museen und Archiven, mit Unterstützung der Universitätsbibliothek, der öffentl. Kunstsammlung und der Jakob Burckhardt-Stiftung
Die Miniaturen in den Basler Bibliotheken, Museen und Archiven is a 1917 Basel catalogue of manuscript miniatures and decorated initials held in the city's libraries, museums and archives, compiled by art historian Konrad Escher for scholars of medieval illumination. Its plates show facsimile reproductions of framed miniatures, historiated initials and marginal foliage on printed pages, with dense Gothic script beside the ornament. A designer could take from them the interlaced scrollwork, bracketed borders and decorated capital letters of late medieval Germanic manuscripts.
