Notice de douze livres royaux du XIIIe et du XIVe siáecle
A French catalogue of twelve royal manuscripts from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, written by Léopold Delisle and printed in Paris in 1902 by the Imprimerie Nationale for scholars and collectors of medieval books. Its pictures are photographic reproductions of manuscript miniatures and historiated initials, showing framed scenes of kneeling figures, altars, angels, and monks, with ruled text columns and ornamental borders. A designer could take from them the compositional logic of medieval page layouts, with figures set inside roundels, initials and borders framing the text.
