[1] The illuminated letters in medieval manuscripts vary in size ... [Book of Hours : Use of Rome]. (Italy), 15th c. History of acquisition unknown; possibly the gift of Philip D. Sang. Manus 7, ...

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.

and expensive illuminated manuscripts. That means that only the most skilled, experienced painters would have access to it. Obviously, this unnamed medieval woman must have been exceptionally good ...

painted all those gorgeous illuminated manuscripts. The intricate role of the scribe has been popularly attributed to medieval monks, but many of those artists may have actually been nuns.

the manuscripts they produced often read like comic books— and the medieval illuminated manuscripts of Ps ychomachia; the war of the soul: or, the battle of the virtues, and vices could ...