[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,” ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The history of bookmaking hasn't been without its challenges, but never was its craft as painstaking as during the era of illuminated manuscripts. Joining the ranks of history's most appalling and ...

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 ...