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

Psalter (Gallican) with glosses from the Glossa Ordinaria

Bible

Miniature from an Antiphoner

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of the Osservanza Triptych

Tragedies

Maker(s)

Author: Seneca

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

Laurent d’Orléans, La Somme le roi

Maker(s)

Artist: Master Honore d'Amiens

Psalter

Fragment (manuscript)

Rule of St Augustine, Hugh of St Victor, Expositio in Regulam beati Augustini, and Constitutiones of the Augustinians

Historiated initial from an Antiphoner

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Binder: Winter, Annie

Historiated initial from a Choir Psalter and Hymnal

Border fragment with a peacock

Martyrology

Historiated initial from a Choir Psalter and Hymnal

Book of Hours

Maker(s)

Author: Grote, Geert

Book of Hours

Leaf from a Gradual

Maker(s)

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

Schönbartbuch

Diurnal

Illuminated leaf from a Breviary

Maker(s)

Unknown

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