Prophecies about the Papacy
This is a fifteenth-century German manuscript of prophecies about the papacy, dated 1444 and held in a Swiss library, apparently made for clerical readers. Its pictures are hand-coloured pen drawings of robed figures in ecclesiastical dress, each paired with animals or symbols and set above lines of script, offering a designer a clear model for medieval manuscript illumination, pen-and-wash figure work, and framed text-and-image layouts.
