“Unfinished Hours” (1440-50), folio 17r, M.358 (photo by Janny Chiu, courtesy Morgan Library and Museum) This particular illuminated manuscript ... would draw red letters for emphasis.

The first show is titled “Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts from the 13th to ... He would outline the letters, get someone to approve it, and then either he or someone else would fill ...

The modern European idea shines up for the first time in these letters [from St Columbanus to the pope] — Dr Cornel Dora Manuscripts are complemented by related artefacts, “so you can see an ...

The history of bookmaking hasn't been without its challenges, but never was its craft as painstaking as during the era of illuminated manuscripts. Joining the ranks of history's most appalling and ...

Some of them were created more than 1,000 years ago, and yet the palette of colours used by the artists arguably remains as bright and colourful as when they were first painted. The British ...

This beautifully produced book is a reprint of the hardback published in 2011 and as such will serve a wider readership among those who want better to understand illuminated manuscripts.