La messe : études archéologiques sur ses monuments
Charles Rohault de Fleury's 1883 Paris study La messe is an archaeological survey of the Mass, its altar furnishings and its vestments, written for scholars and antiquarians of church art. Its plates are measured line drawings of medieval embroidered vestments, ornamental pattern panels, and manuscript miniatures of liturgical scenes, with small inscriptions and dimensions. A designer could take from them the geometric diamond, lozenge and foliate motifs of medieval textiles, and the compact layout of grouped figures and patterned panels.
