Action or process of creating illumination, which comprises paintings and other adornments applied to books, scrolls, or other document types for the purpose of illustrating or decorating the text

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A craftsman illuminating a document. Woodcut by J. Amman.

v, 34 pages, 24 mounted colour plates ; 34 cm

The Book of Kells / [Sir Edward Sullivan].

74 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cm.

Die Apotheke in der Buchmalerei / W.-H. Hein und D.A. Wittop Koning.

Palm-leaf and paper : illustrated manuscripts of India and Southeast Asia / by John Guy ; with an essay by O.P. Agrawal.

and atlas of 187 facsimxxvii, 328 pages ; 33 x 27 cm

A descriptive catalogue of the Latin manuscripts in the John Rylands library at Manchester / by Montague Rhodes James.

xxiv, 419 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm

Imaging Aristotle : verbal and visual representation in fourteenth-century France / Claire Richter Sherman.

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Illumination of books and manuscripts

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The Book of Kells / [Sir Edward Sullivan].

Die Apotheke in der Buchmalerei / W.-H. Hein und D.A. Wittop Koning.

Palm-leaf and paper : illustrated manuscripts of India and Southeast Asia / by John Guy ; with an essay by O.P. Agrawal.

A descriptive catalogue of the Latin manuscripts in the John Rylands library at Manchester / by Montague Rhodes James.

Imaging Aristotle : verbal and visual representation in fourteenth-century France / Claire Richter Sherman.

Illumination of books and manuscripts

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Works from the collections

The Book of Kells / [Sir Edward Sullivan].

Die Apotheke in der Buchmalerei / W.-H. Hein und D.A. Wittop Koning.

Palm-leaf and paper : illustrated manuscripts of India and Southeast Asia / by John Guy ; with an essay by O.P. Agrawal.

A descriptive catalogue of the Latin manuscripts in the John Rylands library at Manchester / by Montague Rhodes James.

Imaging Aristotle : verbal and visual representation in fourteenth-century France / Claire Richter Sherman.

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