Nycolaus de Lyra, Postilla super libros Regum et Esther
A late medieval manuscript, Nicholas of Lyra's biblical commentary on the Books of Kings and Esther, dated 1400 and held in a Swiss library. The single picture is a hand-coloured pen drawing of a crowned king at a draped table with a trumpeter and courtiers in the background. Designers might take its simple, flat colour washes and clear outlines as a model for naive historical illustration.
