"Florence and the Renaissance have become virtually synonymous, bringing to mind names like Dante, Giotto, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and many others whose creativity thrived during a time of unprecedented prosperity, urban expansion, and intellectual innovation. and restrict your search to Catalog then Type: illuminated manuscripts and select the field: Subject. To find additional titles relating to Illuminated manuscripts in USC Libraries' online catalog, select: Advanced Search.
Please note: The list of books on this page is a very small selection of titles at USC Libraries. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library, c1994.ĭecorations and Illumination (University of Nottingham) is a short overview of decorated and illuminated initials, borders, and miniatures. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A guide to technical terms. See also: "Glossaries", British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, and, Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.). As a widespread phenomenon, illumination is most associated with medieval manuscripts, including the great monastic bibles and religious works, although illuminated manuscripts of various kinds, such as brightly coloured genealogies and chronicles, heightened with gold or silver, can still be found in the sixteenth and even seventeenth centuries.
Illumination can take the form of richly coloured and decorated lettering, elaborate tracery in the text, margins, or borders, and other ornamental or pictorial features, or else, most especially, miniatures (see miniature). ( Excerpt): "Deriving from the Latin illuminare (‘to light up’), the term ‘illumination’ means the decoration of manuscripts with gold or silver and with other bright, luminous colours (as opposed to monochrome black ink, or shades of grey known as ‘grisaille’), the manuscript thus embellished being described as illuminated. A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology, 1450 to 2000, Oxford University Press, 2011:
Illumination - Definition: See p.192 in: Beal, Peter.
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