Nycolaus de Lyra; Jacobus de Cessolis
This illustrated manuscript, a late fourteenth-century copy from 1392 by or after Nicholas of Lyre and Jacobus de Cessolis, survives in a Swiss library and was made for clerical or scholarly readers. Its pencil-and-watercolour figures show tradesmen and officials in simple outlines with bold flat colour, offering a designer loose medieval costume silhouettes, hand-held props, and a compact way of pairing an image with a short caption beneath.
