illuminated manuscripts
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Handwritten manuscripts that have been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colors, designs, or miniature pictures. Although prevalent in Islamic and Asian societies, the longest tradition of illuminating manuscripts was in Christian medieval Europe, from the 6th-16th centuries, when the art was superseded by printed illustrations. Generally, the manuscripts were both 'historiated', or decorated with relevant paintings, and 'illuminated' in its original sense, meaning decorated with calligraphic initial capital letters using gold leaf. Over time, the term 'illuminated' came to refer to any illustration or decoration in a manuscript. Illuminated manuscripts played a major role in the development of art, partly because of the manuscript's portability in carrying artistic developments from one region to another.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
A teaching collection of medieval manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0175
Abstract
This collection consists of 15 leaves from medieval manuscripts selected for the purposes of teaching medieval textual culture. Every common book-type is represented: psalter, gradual, missal (Sanctorale and Temporale), lectionary, folio Bible, pocket Bible, breviary, civil law, Book of Hours (three examples spanning two centuries), capitulary, as well as leaves from a Quran and an Ethiopian Gospel book in Ge'ez that represent the ongoing tradition of manuscript production in the...
Dates:
approximately 1250-approximately 1920
Found in:
Special Collections
Antiphonary leaf
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-185
Collection Overview
Title supplied by cataloger. Single manuscript leaf. Red and black ink on double-sided vellum. With musical notation. Text reads: "[quod] cumque ligaveris super terram erit ligatum et in celis et quodcumque solveris super terram erit solutum et in ce[lis]"--from Matthew 16:19.
Dates:
approximately 1550
Found in:
Special Collections