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Illumination

Scope note

Use for the art or process of providing decoration with gold, silver, or bright colors to pages or letters in manuscripts; also refers to similar decoration done by hand in early printed books.

This term has 614 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique
Object category

Getty AAT term number

3000220539

Broader Terms used

<image-making processes and techniques>

Term used for

illuminating

Equivalent Terms used

illuminated

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

An image of Psalter

Psalter and Hours

An image of Hymnal

Glossed Hymnal

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Miniature from Jacques Le Lieur, Poème sur la Passion

Maker(s)

Illuminator: Master of Girard Acarie

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Leaf from Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of Martainville 183

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Leaf from Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of Martainville 183

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Leaf from Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of Martainville 183

MS 355, Vol. 4: 355/4a-355/4ad + 355/5c

MS 355, Vol. 6: 355/6a- 355/6ac.i

MS 355, Vol. 2: 355/2a-355/2ae

Illuminated leaf from a Breviary

Maker(s)

Unknown

An image of Other

Office Lectionary for the Sanctorale

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of the Cambridge Antiphoner
Artist: Master of MS lat. 42

An image of Psalter

Psalter

An image of MS McClean 179_f98r_mas.tif

Romances

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Miniature from an illuminated liturgical book

Maker(s)

Artist: Milano, Matteo da

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Leaf from Hours

Maker(s)

Artist: Master of Martainville 183

An image of Cutting (manuscript)

Initial from a Gradual

An image of Leaf (manuscript)

Leaf from a Doge’s Commission

Maker(s)

Artist: Huntington Master

An image of Leaf (manuscript)

Leaf from a Doge’s Commission

Maker(s)

Artist: Master To. Ve.

An image of Leaf (manuscript)

Leaf from a Choir Psalter

An image of Miscellany

Religious miscellany

An image of Antiphoner

Antiphoner

Maker(s)

Artists: Battista Rosa, Giovanni and assistants
Scribe: Ballo, Giovanni (Iohannes Ballus)

An image of Leaf (manuscript)

Leaf from a Gradual

An image of Leaf (manuscript)

Leaf from the Egmond Breviary

Maker(s)

Artist: Masters of Zweder van Culemborg

An image of MS 165_f61v_201904_kly25_dc1.jpg

L’instruction d’un jeune prince

Maker(s)

Artist: Marmion, Simon
Artist: Liédet, Loyset
Author: de Lannoy, Guillebert or Hugues
Author: René d’Anjou

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