• Thumbnail for Miniature (illuminated manuscript)
    is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated...
    52 KB (6,789 words) - 17:42, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Illuminated manuscript
    An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often...
    44 KB (4,757 words) - 10:50, 10 July 2024
  • Miniature painting may refer to: Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small illustration used to decorate an illuminated manuscript Persian miniature...
    667 bytes (115 words) - 05:52, 28 August 2023
  • Miniature (chess), a short chess game, typically with no more than 25 moves. Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small painting in an illuminated text...
    2 KB (258 words) - 17:45, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Armenian illuminated manuscripts
    and miniature illustrations. They are related to other forms of Medieval Armenian art, Persian miniatures, and to Byzantine illuminated manuscripts. The...
    103 KB (13,788 words) - 08:22, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Byzantine illuminated manuscripts
    Byzantine illuminated manuscripts were produced across the Byzantine Empire, some in monasteries but others in imperial or commercial workshops. Religious...
    23 KB (2,816 words) - 06:49, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of illuminated manuscripts
    This is a list of illuminated manuscripts. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, cod. suppl. gr. 1294 (Romance Papyrus) Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus...
    90 KB (10,523 words) - 16:34, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Initial
    Initial (redirect from Illuminated capital)
    Irish manuscripts Lombardic capitals – Type of decorative capital letter Middle initial – Abbreviation of middle name Miniature (illuminated manuscript) –...
    16 KB (1,722 words) - 02:51, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Manuscript
    restoration of illuminated manuscripts – Care and treatment of decorated texts Manuscript culture – Culture depending on hand-written manuscripts Miniature (illuminated...
    34 KB (3,722 words) - 17:28, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arabic miniature
    Arabic miniatures (Arabic: ٱلْمُنَمْنَمَات ٱلْعَرَبِيَّة, Al-Munamnamāt al-ʿArabīyyah) are small paintings on paper, usually book or manuscript illustrations...
    47 KB (4,501 words) - 18:19, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Persian miniature
    comparable to the Western Medieval and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in illuminated manuscripts. Although there is an equally well-established Persian tradition...
    64 KB (8,771 words) - 08:41, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cultural depictions of Isabella of France
    [citation needed] Isabella's French family, depicted in a 1313 miniature (illuminated manuscript illustration). From left to right: Isabella's brothers, Charles...
    14 KB (1,301 words) - 20:20, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ashburnham Pentateuch
    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...
    5 KB (531 words) - 17:56, 12 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vukan's Gospel
    Vukan's Gospel (category Illuminated manuscript stubs)
    јеванђеље Serbian Latin: Vukanovo jevanđelje) is a 13th-century Serbian illuminated manuscript (Gospel Book) in Serbian recension of Church Slavonic. It is one...
    3 KB (236 words) - 14:44, 15 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rabbula Gospels
    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...
    10 KB (954 words) - 16:28, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cotton Genesis
    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...
    7 KB (763 words) - 03:01, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ottoman miniature
    Ottoman miniature (Turkish: Osmanlı minyatürü) is a style of illustration found in Ottoman manuscripts, often depicting portraits or historic events. Its...
    26 KB (2,944 words) - 17:49, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Syriac Bible of Paris
    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...
    4 KB (484 words) - 20:09, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Limoges Cathedral
    Jerusalem" Miniature illuminated manuscript from cathedral crypt (12th c.) Miniature Sacramentary from crypt of Limoges Cathedal (13th century) Miniature Sacrementary...
    20 KB (2,411 words) - 15:01, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pearl Manuscript
    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...
    20 KB (2,080 words) - 22:52, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
    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...
    41 KB (5,652 words) - 14:27, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bible of St Louis
    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...
    20 KB (3,078 words) - 14:48, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Book of Job in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts
    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...
    31 KB (4,767 words) - 02:19, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benedictional of St Æthelwold
    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...
    10 KB (1,233 words) - 17:17, 4 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Book of Kells
    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...
    67 KB (8,833 words) - 10:57, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Khamsa of Nizami (British Library, Or. 12208)
    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...
    12 KB (1,572 words) - 17:35, 15 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of most expensive books and manuscripts
    Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts, Part III : Lot 26: The Imhof Prayerbook, illuminated by Simon Bening, in Latin and Dutch, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum"...
    142 KB (5,648 words) - 01:35, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Godescalc Evangelistary
    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...
    16 KB (2,143 words) - 13:38, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Book of Felicity
    The Book of Felicity (category 16th-century illuminated manuscripts)
    The Book of Felicity (Matali' al-Saadet) is an illuminated manuscript made in the Ottoman Empire in 1582. Commissioned by Sultan Murad III, who ruled the...
    4 KB (506 words) - 12:40, 21 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Rothschild Prayerbook
    Rothschild Prayerbook (category 16th-century illuminated manuscripts)
    (both titles are used for other books), is an important Flemish illuminated manuscript book of hours, compiled c. 1500–1520 by a number of artists. It...
    10 KB (1,012 words) - 22:24, 26 June 2024