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Illuminated manuscripts - handwritten books with illustrations and decorations painted in vibrant colors and gold - were among the most valuable items owned by renaissance kings and princes.

You need not be a history buff to delight in ‘The Manuscripts Club’ Christopher de Hamel tours illuminated manuscripts with scholarly authority, highly engaging prose and magnificent art ...

Jean Pucelle, Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, 1320s. Lengthy projects. Labor-intensive tools. Delicate detail work. Careful preparation. And, after all that time, only the minimum apparent contribution to ...

A Ridgefield man is collaborating with a team of academics to learn more about history and music after discovering Medieval musical manuscripts that are 800 years old. Hundreds of books surround ...

In the library museum, which has glass cabinets full of illuminated books from the Ottoman Empire and the Caucasus, as well as many from Bosnia’s medieval kingdom, I was told about a film that ...

They experienced a brief revival, however, in medieval manuscripts towards the end of the 15th century. And they haven’t completely disappeared from the common imagination.

Depictions in original illuminated manuscripts, which are handwritten books or documents, typically include lavish illustrations, borders and other flourishes in addition to a central text.

Accompanying the 17 manuscripts, which range from poems and letters to religious texts, are more than 100 objects gathered from NMI’s collection. St Gallen was always conscious of the fact it ...

MEDIEVAL scribes filled vo­lumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also depended on a ...

At Least 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts Were Copied by Women. Story by Tibi Puiu • 1w. ... The trend coincided with a rise in vernacular manuscripts — books written in local languages rather ...