This manuscript includes detailed opening pages to the chapters along with colorful treatment throughout the text. The illuminated letters cover the page and draw on geometric patterns to ...

Now, you can crap on their efforts by slapping together rad illuminated pages in seconds in a video game editor. That game is ...

Even today, when modern readers look at illuminated manuscripts, they can appreciate the careful artistry used to write and illustrate these texts. Notes de Hamel, Christopher. The British Library ...

Known as a missal, the illuminated manuscript was a book of services that included all the texts needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year, including on feast days, holidays and commemorations ...

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 ...

On View See Inside a New Getty Museum Show on Medieval Graphic Design, Featuring Illuminated Manuscripts and Ornate Religious Texts. Many medieval methods will be familiar to readers today ...

Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections; Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety continues at the Houghton Library, Harvard University (Harvard Yard, Cambridge) through December 10 ...

An illuminated folio from the most treasured manuscript of The Shahnameh, Persia’s Book of Kings, will reappear on October 26 alongside ornate texts and artifacts for Sotheby’s London’s ...