Illumination: "to illuminate" means, of course, to fill with light illuminating a manuscript has to do with using gold and silver in decorative elements, in order, by reflected light, to give the appearance that there is light within the manuscript."rubrication"), coming to mean a picture, related to the contents (as distinct from an "illustration," which is a picture, for instance drawn in a margin, which is decorative but not related to the contents).
Miniature: from the Latin miniare, "to pick out in red" (cf.Flourisher: "A maker of pen-work decoration on initials and of flourish-work or pen-work borders" (Scott 371).Limner: "A general term employed here, following contemporary medieval usage, to denote a maker of either or both miniatures and border or other secondary decoration in a book" (Scott 373).scribe, limner, or binder) and therefore probably trained apprentices" (Scott 376). Stationer: "In the late 14th and 15th centuries, a tradesman (and possibly woman) who was engaged in some or all of the following activities: organizing the production of manuscript-books among the various craftsmen involved, selling new and second-hand manuscripts and (later) printed books, acting as the agent in the purchase of books and in importing books, evaluating books and estate books, and selling items not connected with the book trade but who either at the same time or previously may have been a craftsman in the book trade (e.g.A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles 6 (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996), supplemented from a variety of other sources and glossaries. Scott's catalogue of Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390-1490, 2 vols. What follows is a sampling of the terms (and basic concepts) useful in the study of the decorative aspects of medieval manuscripts most of the definitions of these terms presented here are taken from the glossary included in Kathleen L. You are here: > Main Page > Course Notes > Decoration and IlluminationĬertain types of decoration and illustration are common in late medieval manuscripts, and influence the design and decoration of early printed books. Manuscript Studies: Decoration and Illumination
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