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Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts

Type Object Region Europe Time c. 1190–1200

Late 12th-century European painted manuscripts on parchment using gold leaf, ultramarine, and fine linework in Gothic style, common in Bibles, liturg…

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  1. c. 1190–1195French court and church scriptoria · FranceThe facing-page image-and-text layout of the Moralized Bible was still being produced by Paris workshops in the 1190s, with page-edge decoration shifting from Romanesque geometric bands to denser foliate and figure borders.
  2. c. 1195–1200Canterbury and Winchester · KentPsalter and Gospel manuscripts commissioned by English cathedrals and monasteries adopted more slender columns and pointed-arch initial decoration, reflecting a cross-Channel Gothic book aesthetic.

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