These opening letters for one of the psalms are a classic illustration of medieval illumination, relying on vibrant colors, geometric patterns, and illustrated scenes (image courtesy the British ...

Organized by the University Libraries Special Collections Division and the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, the symposium will take place at Mullins Library and the World ...

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.

The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis houses several medieval manuscripts that depict beautiful examples of illumination. Four notable examples ...

These are nativity scenes from illuminated prayer books dating from the late 15th to early 16th century. Randomly chosen, these miniature paintings represent a tiny portion of the collection of ...

A rich selection of 25 illuminated manuscripts from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale will be on display at the Beinecke from March 28 through April 11. The ...

Three outstanding contemporary artists who bring together text and image in their work — Salma Arastu, Archie Granot and Bernard Maisner — are highlighted in an exhibition that locates them in the ...

?Carpe diem, Latin for “seize the day,” applies to work by Chico’s Hilarie and James Cornwell, owners of Cornwell ScribeWorks. The day (or two or more) being seized, however, has nothing to do with ...

Los Angeles’s J. Paul Getty Museum is returning a Byzantine illuminated manuscript of the New Testament that dates back to 12th-century Greece, reports AFA news. The piece has been missing from the ...

The 12th-century mystic continues to attract devotees among both Catholic clergy and New Age gurus, Christian traditionalists and radical feminists. The Divan’s whereabouts remained a mystery until ...