Fragment with the Last Supper from the Gradual of St. Katharinental (Thurgau)
A liturgical choir book, a gradual, made around 1312 at the Dominican convent of St. Katharinental in Thurgau, Switzerland, for use in singing the Mass. The painted fragment shows the Last Supper in a circular frame with gilded ground, haloed figures, and a set table. A designer might take its flat patterned drapery, gold-leaf circle, and bold red and green contours as a model for early Gothic manuscript illumination.
