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An illuminated manuscript is a book, usually religious in nature, that has been intricately decorated with paints, inks, and metal leaf such as gold and silver. This can include full page illustrations, intricate initials at the beginning of paragraphs and chapters, and embellishment to particularly important areas of text.
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 .
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 ...
Folio 27 of the Lindisfarne Gospels, British Library, Cotton MS Nero D.IV. Insular illumination refers to the production of illuminated manuscripts in the monasteries of Ireland and Great Britain between the 6th and 9th centuries, as well as in monasteries under their influence on continental Europe.
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.
The Spinola Hours is a illuminated manuscript book of hours of about 1510-1520, consisting of 312 folios, over 80 of which are mainly decorated with miniature paintings. It was produced between Bruges and Ghent in Flanders around 1510-1520, and is a key work of the Ghent–Bruges school of illuminators.
The manuscript has no introduction, title page, list of contents or dedication that would be usual for the time. Instead it launches straight into its sequence of illustrations and commentary. It is written in rough chronological order, from the Old Testament through various phenomena and portents from Antiquity up to the time of production and ...
The first illuminated page contains colors of crimson and various shades of sapphire as well as gold encasing people and mythical creatures such as mermaids, imps, and centaurs as well as various birds and plants. The animals and people are ringed by gold on the outer left side and the center rings the imps and men with abstracted bodies.