Thüring von Ringoltingen, Story of the beautiful Melusine
A German prose romance, the Melusine story by Thüring von Ringoltingen, copied and illustrated in 1471 in a manuscript now held by a Swiss library, probably for a noble or patrician reader. Its pages pair a block of German script with a framed, hand-coloured miniature in red, blue, green and gold; the scenes show courtly interiors, armoured knights in wooded landscapes, and a walled town under siege, offering a designer medieval costume, heraldic colour and compact narrative panels.
