Opened last month, Miracles in Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France celebrates one of the last greats of the illuminated manuscript ... over Mary’s Annunciation, to the ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver.

Annunciation to the Shepherds ... Kathleen Doyle, lead curator of illuminated manuscripts at the British Library, said: “When people imagine England and France at the turn of the first ...

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 ...