Illumination

Scope note

Use for the art or process of providing decoration with gold, silver, or bright colors to pages or letters in manuscripts; also refers to similar decoration done by hand in early printed books.

This term has 614 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique
Object category

Getty AAT term number

3000220539

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

Historiated initial from a Choir Psalter

Patent of Nobility

Book of Hours

Antiphoner

Leaf from a Missal

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of the Hindman leaves

Leaf from a Missal

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of the Hindman leaves

Gradual

Maker(s)

Scribe: Ballo, Giovanni (Iohannes Ballus)
Artists: Battista Rosa, Giovanni and assistants

Leaf from an Antiphoner

Leaf from a Missal

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of the Hindman leaves

Breviary

Rule of the Poor Clares

Tractatus de purgatorio

Maker(s)

Author: Bernardino of Siena

Collage with Crucifixion miniature

Register of the Venetian Guild of Musicians

Model book

Breviary

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

Maker(s)

Artist: Nascimbene, Nicolò di Giacomo di

Fragment from a Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Milano, Matteo da

Expositio vocabulorum

Maker(s)

Author: Ysaac, Iacobus
Scribe: Iohannes of Treviso

Missal

Maker(s)

Artist: Pietro, Sano di and assistants

Hours

Patent of Nobility

Leaf (manuscript)

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