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manuscript illumination
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picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript
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Vinony files it under Iconography of illuminated manuscripts, Illuminated manuscripts and Miniature painting.
Its subject is documented across 46 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Angers Book of Hours (folio 13r).jpg
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- Miniatures (illuminated manuscripts)
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Encyclopedic overview
Miniature of Sinon and the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, early 5th century
A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare 'to colour with minium', a red lead) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment. The generally small scale of such medieval pictures has led to etymological confusion with minuteness and to its application to small paintings, especially portrait miniatures, which did however grew from the same tradition and at least initially used similar techniques.
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