The British Library has digitized one of the most astounding works of art of the Middle Ages, an illuminated manuscript known as the Sherborne Missal, making it viewable in astonishing detail ...

The project, France and England: Illuminated Manuscripts 700-1200, is a collaboration between the British Library and the National Library of France (Bibliotheque nationale de France), two ...

People have been coming up with clever ways to bring light to the darkness since we lived in caves, so it’s no surprise we ...

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...

Charlton's discovery of and subsequent focus on illuminated manuscript style-art happened by chance, but immediately felt like a perfect fit, melding her academic focuses on art and history. She ...

Finally, he retired, and began the Illuminated Manuscripts Project through his upstart digital studio with the support of his wife, Anita, a computer teacher at a Vallejo high school.

A Folio From the Greatest Illuminated Manuscript of Persia’s ‘Book of Kings’ Could Fetch $7 Million at ... In total, at least 15 painters devoted themselves to the full project. Mirza Ali, ...

What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ...

The discoveries were made during a project to reroof Oxburgh Hall, according to the National Trust. The 15th-century manuscript was used in religious observance, according to experts.

Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18 th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the ...