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

Broader Terms used

<image-making processes and techniques>

Term used for

Equivalent Terms used

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Fragment (manuscript)

Border fragment from the Missal of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Historiated initial from a Choir book

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner or Gradual

Maker(s)

Artist: Libri, Girolamo dai

An image of Fragment (manuscript)

Border fragment from the Missal of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner or Gradual

Maker(s)

Artist: Libri, Girolamo dai

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Historiated initial from a Choir Psalter

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Historiated initial from a Choir book

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Initial from a Gradual

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of the Arcimboldi Missal
Artist: Crivelli, Protasio

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Historiated initial from a Choir book

An image of Book of hours

Hours

Maker(s)

Scribe: Rodericus de Avila

An image of Fragment (manuscript)

Border fragments from the Missal of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini

An image of Fragment (manuscript)

Border fragment from the Missal of Cardinal Antoniotto Pallavicini

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Crucifixion miniature

Maker(s)

Artist: Todeschino, Giovanni

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Initial from a choir book

An image of Book of hours

Book of hours

An image of Bible

Biblia figurata

An image of Other

Decretum

Maker(s)

Author: Gratian

An image of Other

Collectar

An image of Leaf (manuscript)

Leaf from a Gradual

Maker(s)

Scribe: Weert, Francis
Artists: Associates of the Master of Cardinal Wolsey

An image of Leaf (manuscript)

Leaf from a Gradual

Maker(s)

Scribe: Weert, Francis
Artists: Associates of the Master of Cardinal Wolsey

An image of Other

Other

Maker(s)

Artist: Renner, Narziss
Scribe: Wagner, Leonhard

An image of Leaf (manuscript)

Leaf from a Gradual

Maker(s)

Scribe: Weert, Francis
Artists: Associates of the Master of Cardinal Wolsey

Choir Psalter

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