Austrian Bible translator: Commentary on the Psalms; Canticles, German
A manuscript of a German-language commentary on the Psalms and Canticles, made around 1460, probably for devotional or scholarly reading. The picture shows a large red penned initial letter B with a smaller hand-lettered German text beneath it, displaying the hand-decorated page of a medieval manuscript. A designer might take the bold red-on-cream initial as a model for ornamental capitals, drop caps, and gothic blackletter-style lettering.
