The overarching goal is to foster strong critical reading and thinking skills, while also developing specialized knowledge in the field of manuscript studies. The term generally applies the works created by European monks. For it he commissioned a fine illuminated manuscript in an. This course will investigate this material through engagement with primary sources, workshops on the physical aspects of making manuscripts, visits to Special Collections and the Saint Louis Art Museum's Print Study Room. An illuminated manuscript is a hand-written book that has been ornately decorated and usually gilded (decorated with gold). V rard was the turning point between illuminated manuscripts and the modern printed edition. It similarly aims to look broadly across Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions. However, this course intentionally takes a non-chronological approach to the study of these objects, to more comprehensively explore connections across time, geography, technical practices, and patronage circles. The goal of this course is to investigate the history of illuminated manuscript production between the years 8.
Not only were they often hugely expensive and highly prized by their owners, but they are also some of the most illuminating (pun intended) documents regarding artist production, patronage, devotion, and transmission of knowledge in the period we roughly define as the Middle Ages.
Though various Islamic societies also practiced this art, Europe had one of the longest and most cultivated traditions of illuminating manuscripts. 3 An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration or illustration, such as decorated initials. Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most complex, intriguing, and beautiful works of art to survive from the medieval period. illuminated manuscript, handwritten book that has been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colours, or elaborate designs or miniature pictures.