Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla super Genesim et Exodum
A late fourteenth-century manuscript commentary on Genesis and Exodus by Nicolaus de Lyra, dated 1396, held by a Swiss library and copied in dense ink text with red rubrics and marginal captions. Its pictures are small, loose pen drawings with washed colour: one shows oxen beneath orange scrolling foliage, the other a figure beside a bed with a reclining body, both captioned in Latin, suggesting marginal annotation a designer could adapt for hand-drawn ornament, lettering, or narrative vignettes.
