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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 used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers and liturgical books such as psalters and courtly literature, the practice continued into secular texts from the 13th century onward and typically include proclamations, enrolled bills, laws ...
Ende (or En) is the first known Spanish female manuscript illuminator to have her work documented through inscription: ENDE PINTRIX ET D(E)I AIUTRIX in the colophon of the Gerona Beatus. [1] Most information about her comes down to the inscription in her artwork as there was no other record. [2]
A limner is an illuminator of manuscripts, or more generally, a painter of ornamental decoration. A mention of medieval limners' work appears in the book Methods and Materials of Painting by Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865). "The treatises [on oil painting] cannot be placed later than the thirteenth, or beginning of the fourteenth, century.
Guda was a 12th-century nun and illuminator from Germany. [1] She was one of the first woman to create a self-portrait in a manuscript, [2] setting a precedent for female medieval illuminators and manuscript writers in the subsequent centuries.
Miniature of Sinon and the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, early 5th century. A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare 'to colour with minium', a red lead [1]) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.
Late Antique and Early Christin Book Illumination. New York: George Braziller, 1977. Williams, John, Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination New York: George Braziller, 1977. Williams, John. The Illustrated Beatus: A Corpus of the Illustrations of the Commentary on the Apocalypse, Volume 1, Introduction. London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1994.
Anastasia (flourished c. 1400 in Paris) was a French illuminator of manuscripts, apparently specializing in the elaborate decorative borders that were increasingly fashionable, and landscape backgrounds. [1]
Folio 27r from the Lindisfarne Gospels contains the incipit from the Gospel of Matthew.. The 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 at Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumberland, which is now in the British Library in London. [1]