Explore: Ethiopian Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts

Ages, manuscripts tend to either be display books with very full illumination, or manuscripts for study with at most a few decorated initials and flourishes

Renaissance) to the main liturgical books, with very few secular works being so treated. In contrast to manuscripts of other periods, it is very often possible

Ethiopian art is the manifestation in art of the Ethiopian civilization. In a primarily African Christian civilization, Ethiopian art traditions have

west, manuscripts were produced in form of scrolls (volumen in Latin) or books (codex, plural codices). Manuscripts were produced on vellum and other

Illuminationism (Persian حكمت اشراق hekmat-e eshrāq, Arabic: حكمة الإشراق ḥikmat al-ishrāq, both meaning "Wisdom of the Rising Light"), also known as

illumination in the manuscript. They are a common feature in larger Gospel Books from the earliest examples in the 6th century until the decline of that

is an Ethiopian Orthodox church, located around five kilometres east of Adwa, in the Mehakelegnaw Zone of the northern Tigray Region in Ethiopia. It was

hagiography, the veneration of saints, in Byzantine illumination. Text and images cover only half of the religious calendar of the Byzantine liturgical year

and contemporary French illumination and metalwork, before the Romanesque period further removed classical restraints, especially in manuscripts, and

(800-820); and the Vienna Coronation Gospels; ten manuscripts in total are usually recognised. The Court School manuscripts were ornate and ostentatious, and reminiscent