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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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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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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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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British animation house Illuminated, alternative title of Black Sheep (Nat & Alex Wolff album) Illuminated manuscript Illuminate (disambiguation) Illumination...
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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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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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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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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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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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Book of Kells (category Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts)
Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illuminated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of...
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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 considered a book...
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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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described in the New Testament Dābbat al-Arḍ Book of Job in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts The Giant Behemoth, an American-British science fiction giant monster...
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Dublin Ms 1317 Illuminated manuscript List of Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts List of illuminated manuscripts List of Irish manuscripts List of New...
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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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Anglo-Saxon art (section Illuminated manuscripts)
metalwork and jewellery from Sutton Hoo and a series of magnificent illuminated manuscripts, and the final period after about 950, when there was a revival...
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The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries (category Scientific illuminated manuscripts)
Qabus. The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries is preserved in two illuminated manuscripts: Edinburgh, University Library, MS Arab 161 and Paris, Bibliothèque...
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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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criticism Manuscript culture Nag Hammadi library Fifty Bibles of Constantine List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts List of illuminated manuscripts A manuscript is...
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Durham Cassiodorus (category Illuminated manuscript stubs)
30) is an 8th-century illuminated manuscript containing an abbreviation of Cassiodorus's Explanation of the Psalms. The manuscript was produced in Northumbria...
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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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