MINIATURIST, French
(active 1160s in Mosan region)

Pattern Book

1160s
Manuscript, 249 x 156 mm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

This leave, showing the Baptism of Christ, together with others now dispersed between various collections, was probably part of a twelfth-century pattern book which functioned as an iconographic guide for goldsmiths and illuminators in the Mosan region.