The Art of Illumination by Julie Richer (a history with illustrations) http://www.cyberkids.com/cw/ars/le/illum/illum1.html
Illuminations: A Lesson in the Art of Illuminated Letters by Amy E. Bruce http://www.fcps.edu/DIS/OHSICS/FineArts/pdfs/Illuminations1.pdf
The Leaves of Gold Learning Center Leaves of Gold: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Museums http://www.leavesofgold.org/learn/index.html
The Art of the Book in the Middle Ages Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/book/hd_book.htm Illuminated Manuscripts Exploring the Middle Ages Marshall Cavendish Digital (Ask Ms. Averill for the user name for McGee and the password for MC digital resources.) http://www.marshallcavendishdigital.com/articledisplayresult/18/4253/44351
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Scriptorium Initials http://www.fontcraft.com/scriptorium/initialfonts.html
Illuminated Letters Scribblaphy http://www.scribblaphy.co.uk/il.htm
Retrokat.com Medieval 15th, 16th, Victorian, and Children's Letters A-Z http://www.retrokat.com/medieval/le.htm
Make Your Own Illumination http://www.cyberkids.com/archive/Issue2/Initials/Initials.html
Owen Jones Illuminated Letters 1864 http://www.panteek.com/OwenJones/index.htm
The Celtic Alphabet The Medieval Scriptorium - A Gallery of Medieval Life and Art. http://www.medievalscript.com/?page_id=19
Decorated Initial Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/Search/SearchServlet?col=getty&nh=10&qt=decorated+initial
The Medieval Illuminated Manuscript Style Art of Randy Asplund http://www.randyasplund.com/browse/scribepg/scribe.html
Amazing Artistic Alliterations McGee 7th Grade Students http://archive.mcgee.berlinschools.org/Library/amazingly_artistic_alliterations.htm Up
The Book of Kells - a mysterious Medieval masterpiece http://visipix.dynalias.com/sites/specials/book_of_kells/bok_start.htm Book of Kells ThinkQuest http://library.thinkquest.org/C005417/bookkell.htm Book of Kells: Celtic's Art Most Magnificent Masterpiece http://www.celticnetwork.com/culture/celtic-art/book-of-kells.html Book of Kells Images http://www.snake.net/people/paul/kells/thumbnails
Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe NYPL Digital Gallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=all&collection_list=MedievalandRenaissan&col_id=173
British Library Images [Search under "decorated initial" to find pages from illuminated manuscripts with illuminated letters.] http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/
The Life of King Edward the Confessor http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/
University of Kentucky Special Collections http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/ukentucky/uky.html
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University http://image.ox.ac.uk/
Manuscripts and illuminations Koninklijke Bibliotheek http://www.kb.nl/bc/mehand/mehand-en.html
Manuscripts Explore Art P. J. Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/exploreArt?typ=2033122
Les tres riche heures du Duc de Berry http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/rh/
Richelieu Manuscrits Francais Manuscrits enlumines Bibiotheque nationale de France http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=08100051 http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=08100052 http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=08100056 http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=08100063 http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=08100161 http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=08100285 http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=08100016 http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/Notice.php?O=08100019
