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Treasured Today
In the preparation of illuminated manuscripts, a master artist often set the style for copyists and assistants to follow, since even the decoration of an initial letter could be a major project.
A single letter might occupy an entire page, and a Complete scene or miniature painting might be contained within the boundaries of, for* instance, an initial “C” or “D.”
Some manuscripts, in fact, represent the work not only of more than one artist but of more than one generation of artists.
Today, illuminated manuscripts are treasures of libraries and museums, and rightly so, for throughout a thousand years of Christian history, the art of illumination brought an extra dimension of beauty to manuscripts that are, in themselves, precious works of art.
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