Composite manuscript
A composite manuscript of 1474 from Switzerland's e-codices collection, showing pages of a handwritten calendar-style table with monthly columns of dates, red and green initials, and small annotations in a late medieval hand. The pages are ruled tables of dates and entries, probably made for a monastic or scholarly reader, offering a designer the rhythm of columned red-ruled text and hand-painted capitals. Their layout of rubricated headings and aligned numerals suits modernist grid studies and vintage almanac typography.
