Illumination

Incipit prolog in elucidario... [manuscript with dual illumination of magister cum discipulis and of scribe at desk.

Honorius Augustodunensis · 1101

Princeton Digital PUL · [38] manuscript leaves on vellum, with a dual…

French manuscript: Leaf from a Book of Hours

French · 1450

Seattle Art Museum · Ink, pigment, and burnished gold on vellum

Street Light

Giacomo Balla · c. 1910-11 (dated on painting 1909)

Museum of Modern Art · Oil on canvas

Incipit prolog in elucidario... [manuscript with dual illumination of magister cum discipulis and of scribe at desk.

Honorius Augustodunensis · 1101

Princeton Digital PUL · [38] manuscript leaves on vellum, with a dual…

Slavonic missal leaf : Roman rite.

Unknown artist · 1462

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 leaf : parchment, illustrations ; 30 cm

Miniatures from a pahpanak (phylactery)

Unknown artist · 1700

Princeton Digital PUL · 11 leaves : paper ; 398 x 87…

Lighthouse

Paul Signac · c. 1896

Museum of Modern Art · Watercolor and charcoal on paper

'Romance Was Born' neon sign

Neolite Neon · 2009

Powerhouse · Neon sign, 'Romance Was Born', glass / perspex, made by…

Works on logic / Boethius.

Boethius, -524 · 1023

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 volume (ii, 58, ii leaves) : parchment…

Book of hours : use of Troyes, [between 1475 and 1499].

Catholic Church · 1475

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 v. (122 leaves) : parchment, ill.

Historiated initial from an antiphonal

Unknown · about 1260–1270

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors; silver paint, tempera colors, and…

Book of Hours

Unknown · early 16th century

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors, Tempera Colors

Decorated Initial from an antiphonal

Unknown · about 1260–1270

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors, Tempera Colors

Saint Mark

Unknown · about 1504–1505

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera

Saint Matthew

Unknown · about 1504–1505

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera

Treatise on Arabic grammar

Unknown artist · 1500

Princeton Digital PUL · 9 leaves : paper ; 170 x 118…

Saint Mark

Egerton Master · about 1410

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and…

Replacement leaf

Unknown · late 19th century ?

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors, gold, and iron gall ink,…

Gospels.

Unknown artist · 1135

Princeton Digital PUL · 278 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 178 x…

Ice Palace. Winter Carnival, Montreal, Feb. 4, 1884. Night Illumination By Electricity.

Charles Bierstadt · February 4, 1884

J. Paul Getty Museum · Albumen silver print

Fifteen Cuttings from Histoire de Charles Martel

Loyset Liédet; Pol Fruit · written 1463–1465; illuminated 1467–1472

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and…

Historiated Initial from a Manuscript

Unknown · 14th century

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors and silver, Tempera Colors, Silver

Portrait of Riz̤ā ʻAbbāsī

Muʻīn Muṣavvir, active 1635-1697 · 1673

Princeton Digital PUL · 1 painting on paper : gouache and gold…

Frontispiece, from a manuscript of Nigaristan

Author: Ahmad · 1573-74 CE/980 AH/AH 980

Aga Khan Museum · Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Ottoman poetical miscellany

Unknown artist · 1553

Princeton Digital PUL · 228 pages : paper ; 193 x 106…

Blue-Dyed Folio from a Manuscript of Poetry

Unknown artist · ca. 1470

Aga Khan Museum · ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Diploma delivered by the University of Rome to Francisco Pieratti, Doctor of surgery

Università di Roma · 1767

Princeton Digital PUL · 4 leaves : paper ; 220 x 150…

The Pavilion and the court of Uljaitus Palace, Folio from a manuscript of Nigaristan

Author: Ahmad · 1573-74 CE/980 AH/AH 980

Aga Khan Museum · Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

A Musician playing a Stringed Instrument,Page from a Muraqqa‘ (album)

Unknown artist · 17th century (assemblage: probably 19th century)

Aga Khan Museum · Opaque watercolour, ink and gold on paper

Avicenna observes a healer, Folio from a manuscript of Nigaristan

Author: Ahmad · 1573-74 CE/980 AH/AH 980

Aga Khan Museum · Ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Morte d'Arthur : a poem / by Alfred Lord Tennyson ; [as designed, written out, and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski].

Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson · 1912

Princeton Digital PUL · 21 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

The miracle of Saint Bonaventura.

Unknown artist · 1485

Princeton Digital PUL · Illuminated initial w/ gold ; matted to 18…

Book of Hours

Unknown · about 1400–1410

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and…

Saint Ossanus

Guglielmo Giraldi · about 1469

J. Paul Getty Museum · Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and…

A Drowsy Courtier Reading by Candlelight

signed by Naqi · ca. 1630

Aga Khan Museum · ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Qur’an Manuscript

copied by Mahmud Sha‘ban · 7 Dhu’l-Qa‘da 801 AH /…

Aga Khan Museum · ink, opaque watercolour, and gold on paper

Dala’il al-Khayrat Prayer book

Unknown artist · dated A.H. Muharram 1233/AD November 1818

Aga Khan Museum · lacquer binding; opaque watercolour, ink, and gold on…

Qur'an Manuscript

Scribe: Hafiz Qazzaq · ca. 1550–1565

Aga Khan Museum · Ink, opaque watercolour

Qur'an Manuscript

transcribed by 'Abdallah al-Shirazi · 1550–1565

Aga Khan Museum · ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper