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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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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Miniature (chess), a short chess game, typically with no more than 25 moves. Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small painting in an illuminated text...
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and miniature illustrations. They are related to other forms of Medieval Armenian art, Persian miniatures, and to Byzantine illuminated manuscripts. The...
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Miniature painting may refer to: Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small illustration used to decorate an illuminated manuscript Persian miniature...
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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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Initial (redirect from Illuminated capital)
Irish manuscripts Lombardic capitals – Type of decorative capital letter Middle initial – Abbreviation of middle name Miniature (illuminated manuscript) –...
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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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comparable to the Western Medieval and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition...
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restoration of illuminated manuscripts – Care and treatment of decorated texts Manuscript culture – Culture depending on hand-written manuscripts Miniature (illuminated...
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Arabic miniatures (Arabic: ٱلْمُنَمْنَمَات ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة, Al-Munamnamāt al-ʿArabīyyah) are small paintings on paper, usually book or manuscript illustrations...
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[citation needed] Isabella's French family, depicted in a 1313 miniature (illuminated manuscript illustration). From left to right: Isabella's brothers, Charles...
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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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Ottoman miniature (Turkish: Osmanlı minyatürü) is a style of illustration found in Ottoman manuscripts, often depicting portraits or historic events. Its...
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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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Rabbula Gospels (category Byzantine illuminated manuscripts)
6th-century illuminated Syriac Gospel Book. One of the finest Byzantine works produced in West Asia, and one of the earliest Christian manuscripts with large...
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Cotton Genesis (category Illuminated biblical manuscripts)
4th- or 5th-century Greek Illuminated manuscript copy of the Book of Genesis. It was a luxury manuscript with many miniatures. It is one of the oldest...
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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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Godescalc Evangelistary (category Carolingian illuminated manuscripts)
Lectionary (Paris, BNF. acquisitions nouvelles lat.1203) is an illuminated manuscript in Latin made by the Frankish scribe Godescalc and today kept in...
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Byzantine manuscripts of the Book of Job dating from the 9th to 14th centuries, as well as a post-Byzantine codex illuminated with cycle of miniatures. The...
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Bible of St Louis (category Illuminated biblical manuscripts)
1214) at the request of his mother Blanche of Castile. It is an illuminated manuscript that contains selections of the text of the Bible, along with a...
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Syriac Bible of Paris (category Illuminated biblical manuscripts)
an illuminated Bible written in Syriac. It dates to 6th or 7th century. It is believed to have been made in northern Mesopotamia. The manuscript has...
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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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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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Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208) (category Literary illuminated manuscripts)
The illuminated manuscript Khamsa of Nizami British Library, Or. 12208 is a lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Khamsa or "five poems" of Nizami Ganjavi...
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Benedictional of St Æthelwold (category 10th-century illuminated manuscripts)
probably intended to be a further 15 full-page miniatures and more framed pages. As with most manuscripts, the illuminations, apart from the gold and silver...
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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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Vienna Dioscurides (category 6th-century illuminated manuscripts)
Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of an even earlier 1st century AD work, De materia medica (Περὶ...
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Book of Hours (Milan, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. 470) (redirect from Book of Hours (Biblioteca Trivulziana manuscript))
of brown leather with stamped ornamentation. Bologna, Giulia, Illuminated Manuscripts: The Book before Gutenberg, New York: Crescent Books 1988. v t...
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Vespasian Psalter (category 8th-century illuminated manuscripts)
Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 900-1066 (Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles), (Harvey Miller: London, 1976), no.55. Turner, D. Illuminated Manuscripts...
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