Any painted or penwork decoration (particularly gold or silver) used to adorn a manuscript, including such features as canon tables, calendars, carpet pages, author, donor, or evangelist portraits, miniatures, initials, borders, etc , but excluding such features as simple pen-flourished letters and line fillers, or the highlighting of letters or paragraph marks within a text usually executed in red or blue ink
Art of illustrating and decorating manuscripts Usually entails painting in watercolor or tempera on parchment or paper Popular during the Romanesque period to educate the faithful through sacred images
The density of the luminous flux incident on a surface; it is the quotient of the luminous flux by the area of the surface when the latter is uniformly illuminated
Illuminations are coloured lights which are put up in towns, especially at Christmas, in order to make them look attractive, especially at night. the famous Blackpool illuminations
The light of the soul pours forth and man on the physical plane in his brain consciousness perceives that which previously was hidden from him The illumined mind transmits soul knowledge
The act of illuminating or state of being illuminated This term is often used incorrectly in place of the term illuminance to denote the density of luminous flux on a surface
Deals with the enlightening or understanding of truth already revealed Illumination generally accompanies inspiration or is included in it, but not always, as it is seen from I Peter 1: 11 Psalm 119: 18 "Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law " The apostle Paul attributes this illumination to the third person of the trinity I Cor2: 12 "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God," (I Cor2: 14; John 14: 17, 26; 16: 12-14)