These opening letters for one of the psalms are a classic illustration of medieval illumination, relying on vibrant colors, geometric patterns, and illustrated scenes (image courtesy the British ...

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.

These are nativity scenes from illuminated prayer books dating from the late 15th to early 16th century. Randomly chosen, these miniature paintings represent a tiny portion of the collection of ...

The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses several medieval manuscripts that depict beautiful examples of illumination. Four notable examples ...

1.Crossing the Threshold -- 2.Illuminating Music -- 3.Why Saints Matter -- 4.Initiating the Renaissance -- 5.Cuttings and Collectors -- 6.Marking Time -- 7.Re-Enacting the Past -- 8.Reading the Bible ...

A rich selection of 25 illuminated manuscripts from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale will be on display at the Beinecke from March 28 through April 11. The ...

Three outstanding contemporary artists who bring together text and image in their work — Salma Arastu, Archie Granot and Bernard Maisner — are highlighted in an exhibition that locates them in the ...

?Carpe diem, Latin for “seize the day,” applies to work by Chico’s Hilarie and James Cornwell, owners of Cornwell ScribeWorks. The day (or two or more) being seized, however, has nothing to do with ...

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 estate ...

Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum is returning a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of the New Testament that dates back to 12th-century Greece, reports AFA news. The piece has been missing from the ...

The marginalia of illuminated manuscripts is weird. When monks weren’t complaining about their jobs as they hand-copied line after line, they were inserting fart jokes into the margins. But one ...