[1] The illuminated letters in medieval manuscripts vary in size ... This illuminated initial E is a single page from the original 14th-century volume. The text below the letter reads “Et factum es,” ...

The most valuable collection of historic illuminated manuscripts ever to be offered ... by the importance of the text, exceptional, original condition, and interesting, even highly distinguished ...

In 1863, elderly and still enslaved, ibn Said wrote a letter in Arabic to John Owen ... The objects on view include exquisitely illuminated manuscripts featuring gold leaf and finely detailed ...

This is not what’s happening, physically, but it makes sense as a metaphor: a medieval manuscript, because it was made by hand, is necessarily an original, even when it is a copy of something else.

Medieval women’s early involvement in manuscript production suggested by lapis lazuli identification in dental calculus. Science Advances , 2019; 5 (1): eaau7126 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aau7126 Cite ...

Conservators and scientists studying illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge say their work could help uncover ancient techniques used by artists. The Fitzwilliam Museum worked with scientists at ...

It displays the original ... an illustrated manuscript with 30 facing pages of the Hebrew and English texts. The Potomac, Maryland, artist has focused on Hebrew illuminated manuscripts for much ...

While Muskegon does not have the original from 800 A.D. − that’s preserved at Trinity College in Dublin − it is one of very few exact copies of the illuminated manuscript. Less than 1,500 ...