Wenceslaus Psalter
A thirteenth-century illuminated manuscript, likely French, made around 1250 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum; its pages are framed by roundels set in gold and blue, with Latin text in red and blue initials. The pictures are small narrative scenes of biblical episodes such as the story of Joseph and Jacob's family, each outlined in dark ink and painted in saturated blue, red and gold. A designer could borrow the roundel-and-medallion grid layout and the tight, jewel-like palette of blue, vermilion and burnished gold.
