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 online.

(Getty Museum) Review by Michael Dirda “The Book of Kells,” “The Lindisfarne Gospels” and “The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry” are not just illuminated manuscripts from the ...

The most valuable collection of historic illuminated manuscripts ever to be offered at auction was unveiled for the first time today. Worth £16 million, the exquisitely illustrated selection of ...

tracing the intricate process of translating text into beautifully illuminated manuscripts while celebrating the unheralded achievements of their creators—particularly women. As Boyd Tonkin note ...

Whoever said it doesn’t pay to learn art history ought to talk with Will Sideri—a 24-year-old from Colby College who just scooped a long-lost page from a fabled illuminated manuscript at an ...

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 ...

The Book of Kells is considered the finest example of the "Insular" style of illuminated manuscripts — from the Latin word for island, the island being Celtic Britain — that were produced in ...