num_pages: 80
description: The British Library houses one of the world's great collections of illuminated manuscripts, and Janet Backhouse has drawn on this resource to make a selection of examples that span over 800 years of medieval book production.
language: English
title: The Illuminated Manuscript
titlecomplete: The Illuminated Manuscript
genres: Art History, Reference, Nonfiction, Medieval, Art, History
ratings_count: 33
publisher: Phaidon Press