Initials are first identified as either plain or decorated. Of course, a plain initial can still be decorative in its size, style, color, or shape, but variation among them is relatively limited.

Anyone who has peered over the soft vellum pages of an illuminated manuscript will have marveled over its intricate and colorful designs, which range from stylized floral borders to decorated ...

The decorated initials, the elaborate borders, the style of the text…to have manuscripts in the gallery from the Middle Ages that look like that — and to be able to compare them — I think is ...

It has finely decorated initials attributed to the artist known as the Cholet Master. ... The manuscript will go on display in Weston's Blackwell Hall. Mr Kauffman added that from 21 March, ...

A newly discovered royal manuscript will go on public display on the anniversary of a University of Oxford library. The Bodleian Libraries will unveil the document, a 13th Century translation of ...