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    An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is decorated with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often...
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    This is a list of illuminated manuscripts. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, cod. suppl. gr. 1294 (Romance Papyrus) Oxford, Sackler Library, Oxyrhynchus...
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    is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated...
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    Byzantine illuminated manuscripts were produced across the Byzantine Empire, some in monasteries but others in imperial or commercial workshops. Religious...
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    Armenian illuminated manuscripts (Armenian: Հայկական մանրանկարչություն, romanized: Haykakan manrankarch'owt'yown), form an Armenian tradition of formally...
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    Exceptional Illuminated Manuscripts, Part III : Lot 26: The Imhof Prayerbook, illuminated by Simon Bening, in Latin and Dutch, Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum"...
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    Henry VIII, illuminated psalter by Jean Mallard that belonged to Henry VIII of England (1540–1550) Golf Book, illuminated Book of Hours manuscript created...
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    "pages". A manuscript may be a codex (i.e. bound as a book), a scroll, or bound differently or consist of loose pages. Illuminated manuscripts are enriched...
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    Initial (redirect from Illuminated capital)
    at the start of a vulgate Latin. These specific initials in an illuminated manuscript were also called initiums. In the present, the word "initial" commonly...
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    The Pearl Manuscript (British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2), also known as the Gawain manuscript, is an illuminated manuscript produced somewhere in northern...
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  • The conservation and restoration of illuminated manuscripts is the care and treatment of illuminated manuscripts which have cultural and historical significance...
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    The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as 'Voynichese.' The vellum on which it is written has been...
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    Lindisfarne Gospels (category Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts)
    Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book probably produced around the years 715–720 in the monastery...
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    Codex Gigas (category 13th-century illuminated manuscripts)
    is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm (36 in). Very large illuminated bibles were typical of Romanesque...
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    Book of hours (category Types of illuminated manuscript)
    the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. Like every manuscript, each manuscript book of hours is unique in one way or another...
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  • British animation house Illuminated, alternative title of Black Sheep (Nat & Alex Wolff album) Illuminated manuscript Illuminate (disambiguation) Illumination...
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    The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries (category Scientific illuminated manuscripts)
    Gorgan. The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries is preserved in two illuminated manuscripts: Edinburgh, University Library, MS Arab 161 and Paris, Bibliothèque...
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  • criticism Manuscript culture Nag Hammadi library Fifty Bibles of Constantine List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts List of illuminated manuscripts A manuscript is...
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    Book of Kells (category Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts)
    Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illuminated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, containing the four Gospels of...
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    Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (category Illuminated manuscripts of the Musée Condé)
    illustrations, the book is one of the most lavish late medieval illuminated manuscripts. After three centuries in obscurity, the Très Riches Heures gained...
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    described in the New Testament Dābbat al-Arḍ Book of Job in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts The Giant Behemoth, an American-British science fiction giant monster...
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    metalwork and jewellery from Sutton Hoo and a series of magnificent illuminated manuscripts, and the final period after about 950, when there was a revival...
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    most exquisite illuminated manuscripts in the Hebrew language from A Coruña, Spain (15th Century) Leofric Missal, illuminated manuscript sacramentary from...
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    and conventions of illuminated manuscripts. Modern art historians see the era as beginning with 14th-century manuscript illuminators. They were followed...
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    Kennicott Bible (category Jewish illuminated manuscripts)
    an illuminated manuscript copy of the Hebrew Bible, copied in the city of A Coruña in 1476 by the calligrapher Moses ibn Zabarah [he] and illuminated by...
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    Sarajevo Haggadah (category 14th-century illuminated manuscripts)
    The Sarajevo Haggadah is an illuminated manuscript that contains the illustrated traditional text of the Passover Haggadah which accompanies the Passover...
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    Lives of the Bishops of Cracow by Jan Długosz is a 16th-century manuscript illuminated by Stanislaw Samostrzelnik between 1531 and 1535. Today it resides...
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    Garima Gospels (category 6th-century illuminated manuscripts)
    earliest, is believed to be the earliest surviving complete illuminated Christian manuscript. Monastic tradition holds that the first two were composed...
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    Geneta Maryam, dated to the 13th century AD. However, paintings in illuminated manuscripts predate the earliest surviving church paintings; for instance,...
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    surviving works of the Carolingian renaissance are illuminated manuscripts. A number of luxury manuscripts, mostly Gospel books, have survived, decorated...
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