An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often...
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This is a list of illuminated manuscripts. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, cod. suppl. gr. 1294 (Romance Papyrus) Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus...
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is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated...
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Byzantine illuminated manuscripts were produced across the Byzantine Empire, some in monasteries but others in imperial or commercial workshops. Religious...
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Armenian illuminated manuscripts (Armenian: Հայկական մանրանկարչություն, romanized: Haykakan manrankarch'owt'yown), form an Armenian tradition of formally...
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Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts, Part III : Lot 26: The Imhof Prayerbook, illuminated by Simon Bening, in Latin and Dutch, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum"...
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Initial (redirect from Illuminated capital)
at the start of a vulgate Latin. These specific initials in an illuminated manuscript were also called initia (singular: initium). The classical tradition...
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"pages". A manuscript may be a codex (i.e. bound as a book), a scroll, or bound differently or consist of loose pages. Illuminated manuscripts are enriched...
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Henry VIII, illuminated psalter by Jean Mallard that belonged to Henry VIII of England (1540–1550) Golf Book, illuminated Book of Hours manuscript created...
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English manuscripts produced after 900, see the List of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Antwerp Sedulius (Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus MS M....
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Codex Gigas (category 13th-century illuminated manuscripts)
("Giant Book"; Czech: Obří kniha) is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). It is a Romanesque Latin...
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British animation house Illuminated, alternative title of Black Sheep (Nat & Alex Wolff album) Illuminated manuscript Illuminate (disambiguation) Illumination...
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The conservation and restoration of illuminated manuscripts is the care and treatment of illuminated manuscripts which have cultural and historical significance...
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Lindisfarne Gospels (category Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts)
Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery...
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Ashburnham Pentateuch (category 6th-century illuminated manuscripts)
the Codex Turonensis) is a late 6th- or early 7th-century Latin illuminated manuscript of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament). Although...
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The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese. The vellum on which it is written has been...
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The Pearl Manuscript (British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2), also known as the Gawain manuscript, is an illuminated manuscript produced somewhere in northern...
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Bern Physiologus (category Illuminated manuscript stubs)
Physiologus (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Codex Bongarsianus 318) is a 9th-century illuminated copy of the Latin translation of the Physiologus. It was probably produced...
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Chronicon Pictum (redirect from Vienna Illuminated Chronicle)
CEU Press (2018). "The Illuminated Chronicle: Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians from the Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Codex". CEU Press – Central...
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Kennicott Bible (category Jewish illuminated manuscripts)
an illuminated manuscript copy of the Hebrew Bible, copied in the city of A Coruña in 1476 by the calligrapher Moses ibn Zabarah [he] and illuminated by...
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Saint Petersburg Bede (redirect from Leningrad Bede manuscript)
I. 18), formerly known as the Leningrad Bede, is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript, a near-contemporary version of Bede's 8th century history, the...
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Book of hours (category Types of illuminated manuscript)
the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another...
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Morgan Bible (category 13th-century illuminated manuscripts)
Bible, Shah Abbas Bible or Maciejowski Bible, is a unique medieval illuminated manuscript. It is a picture book Bible consisting of 46 surviving folios. The...
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Bodleian Library (redirect from Laud Manuscripts)
most exquisite illuminated manuscripts in the Hebrew language from A Coruña, Spain (15th Century) Leofric Missal, illuminated manuscript sacramentary from...
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Flos Duellatorum (category 15th-century illuminated manuscripts)
Duellatorum is the name given to one of the manuscript versions of Fiore dei Liberi's illuminated manuscript fight book, written in 1410 (dated to 1409...
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Drogo Sacramentary (category Christian illuminated manuscripts)
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS lat. 9428) is a Carolingian illuminated manuscript on vellum from c. 850 AD, one of the monuments of Carolingian book...
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Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (category Illuminated manuscripts of the Musée Condé)
Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry), or Très Riches Heures, is an illuminated manuscript that was created between c. 1412 and 1416. It is a book of hours...
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and conventions of illuminated manuscripts. Modern art historians see the era as beginning with 14th-century manuscript illuminators. They were followed...
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Vienna Genesis (category Illuminated biblical manuscripts)
Nationalbibliothek, cod. theol. gr. 31), designated by siglum L (Ralphs), is an illuminated manuscript, probably produced in Syria in the first half of the 6th century...
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Vergilius Augusteus (category Illuminated manuscript stubs)
manuscripts, the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus. They are early examples of illuminated manuscripts; the Augusteus is not illuminated but...
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