Mittelalterliches Hausbuch. Bilderhandschrift des 15. Jahrhunderts mit vollständigem Text und facsimilierten Abbildungen
A facsimile edition published in Frankfurt in 1887 by Heinrich Keller, edited by August von Essenwein, reproducing a fifteenth-century German illuminated manuscript called the Housebook, attributed to the Master of the Housebook. The pages show fine black-line drawings of knights, riders, hunting scenes, and crowded street or battle scenes, with some pages framed as tall panels and others as full figure groupings. A designer could draw on their dense, dynamic compositions, tiny figures packed into layered scenes, and the expressive pen hatching typical of late medieval German drawing.
