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Foreign illuminators and illuminated manuscripts

1999
No account of the history of the manuscript book in Britain in the fifteenth century would be complete without a discussion of the extent to which foreigners were involved in the native book trade, and of the several manuscripts written and illuminated abroad which were imported at this time. This chapter distinguishes five classes of production and/or
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Illuminated Manuscripts as Machines

Manuscripta, 2011
This article considers broadly the ways in which medieval illuminated manuscripts created meaning for their historical viewers. It draws upon work by the critical theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who argued that when people and objects come together, the resulting configurations can be thought of as machines that produce desire. In applying
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Illuminated Manuscripts: Secular

2021
Abstract Illuminated manuscripts with non-religious content—texts on literature, medicine, science, warfare, geography, hunting, and history—typically derive from illuminated Classical and Late Antique texts. Over time, the direct, explicatory images accrued additional features and sometimes transformed into full miniatures with settings
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Illuminated Manuscripts: Religious

2021
Abstract Most illustrated Byzantine religious manuscripts—books of the Old and New Testament, sermons, psalters and hours, lectionaries, saints’ lives, and hymnals—were deluxe hand-produced books made in the capital primarily as gifts or for use in the performance of the liturgy or other religious ceremony.
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Illuminated Manuscripts

2017
Illuminated manuscripts are among the most beautiful, precious and mysterious works of Western art. Before the printing press was invented, books were produced by hand and their illustration using brightly coloured pigments and gold embellishments was a labour of love and an act of piety in itself. The results are stunning. The works emanating from the
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Annotating illuminated manuscripts

Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2005
The aim of this paper is to report the research results of an ongoing project that deals with the exploitation of a digital archive of drawings and illustrations of historic documents for research and educational purposes. According to the results on a study of user requirements, we have designed tools to provide researchers with innovative ways for ...
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An IT Support for an Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts

2017
The paper reports on a project which envisages the employ of IPSA, an originally high-specialized digital archive and web environment purposely developed for professional researchers in History of Art and History of Illumination, to enrich and complete visitors experience in a forthcoming exhibition of illuminated manuscripts.
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Insular Manuscript Illumination

2012
The manuscript decoration produced in Ireland and the British Isles from about 600 to 850 marks the advent of medieval book art. Linked to the arrival of Christianity, it includes some of the earliest surviving examples from groups of northern European people who, never having lived fully within the Roman Empire, received the religion from a culture ...
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