C harlton's discovery of and subsequent focus on illuminated manuscript style-art happened by chance, but immediately felt like a perfect fit, melding her academic focuses on art and history. She ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript has been uncovered in a York convent's archive. Dr Hannah Thomas discovered the 15th-Century Arma Christi at Bar Convent while cataloguing the religious ...

With its sumptuous painted miniatures in tempera and ink, gold and silver, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is the most treasured illuminated manuscript of the collections of Château de ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript has been uncovered in a York convent's archive. Dr Hannah Thomas discovered the 15th-Century Arma Christi at Bar Convent while cataloguing the religious ...

What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ...

What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ago ...

The most ornately illuminated initials seen here are inhabited initials, which depict human figures or animal figures inside the letter. Although only a few inches high, one example, from the ...