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The Cathach of St. Columba (beginning of 7th century) is the oldest extant manuscript with initials decorated in the characteristic style of Insular illumination: the first letter is incorporated into the text and is followed by other letters whose size decreases until they reach the size of the main text. The initials themselves are decorated ...
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 ...
A historiated initial (the letter O) from an illuminated manuscript. In a written or published work, an initial [a] is a letter at the beginning of a word, a chapter, or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word is ultimately derived from the Latin initiālis, which means of the beginning.
The right hand page is only shown in part. On its very bottom is an illuminated letter "U" – initial of "Urina ergo est colamentum sanguinis" (Urine is the filtrate of the blood). Inside the letter is a picture of a master holding up a flask while explaining the diagnostic significance of urine to a student or a patient. HMD Collection, MS E 78.
The bows of letters such as b, d, p, and q are very wide. The script uses many ligatures and has many unique scribal abbreviations , along with many borrowings from Tironian notes . Insular script was spread to England by the Hiberno-Scottish mission ; previously, uncial script had been brought to England by Augustine of Canterbury .
Evangeliary; six full-page miniatures, 12 Canon tables; written in gold and silver letters on purple-dyed parchment Bucharest, National Library of Romania; Vatican City, Vatican Library, Pal. lat. 50 Harley Golden Gospels: c.800 Aachen, Ada School (Court School of Charlemagne) Evangeliary London, British Library, Harley Ms. 2788 Ebbo Gospels
Illuminated, majuscule, frontispicii in colour and gold) Estera Hebrew Meghi'lat Esther (Estera). Bucharest, National Academy Library (Ester - BAR ms. oriental 405, 1673 Moldova, pergament, roll 1750/173 mm. Ebraic text aschenaz with black ink.
Folio 3v from the Saint Petersburg Bede. The Saint Petersburg Bede (Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, lat. Q. v. I. 18), formerly known as the Leningrad Bede, is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript, a near-contemporary version of Bede's 8th century history, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People).