Due to history's patriarchal perpsective, we may not expect feminist viewpoints from a time so long ago as the Middle Ages. Yet women who challenged the status quo have always existed, even then. One ...

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

These opening letters for one of the psalms are a classic illustration of medieval illumination, relying on vibrant colors, geometric patterns, and illustrated scenes (image courtesy the British ...

Once more a very unusual opportunity is to be afforded the residents of Boston and vicinity to see a portion of the valuable collection of Illuminated Manuscripts belonging to J. Pierpont Morgan.

Persian manuscript on paper, 7 leaves, plus 2 fly leaves, 4 lines to the page written on the diagonal in nasta'liq in black ink on a ground of gold illuminated flowers, within gold floral rules and ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today that it has acquired a Flemish illuminated manuscript by Lieven van Lathem, Roman de Gillion de Trazegnies. The Los Angeles Times reports that the book was ...

In 1807, Omar ibn Said, an itinerant Islamic scholar in West Africa, was taken prisoner during a military conflict and enslaved. About 37 years old at the time of his enslavement, he survived the ...