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![[picture: book cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/tn/0000-cover-q50-360x500.jpg "[picture: book cover]")
Images scanned from The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Tymms, with an Essay and Instructions by M. D. Wyatt, Architect. London. Published April 2nd 1860 by Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen.
There are 100 full colour plates in the book done in chromolithography, as well as a chromolithographed title page. I have only scanned a few because my scanner damages the binding. The text is by Matthew Digby Wyatt and the images appear to have been made by W. R. Tymms (and not Symms, as this page used to say).
Title: The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times
Date: 1860
Total items: 132
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Red and Blue Medieval Border with Butterfly]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/84-fifteenth-century-borders-02-q85-30x200.jpg "[picture: Red and Blue Medieval Border with Butterfly]"){kind=small}
Red and Blue Medieval Border with Butterfly
This border was taken from “Hours of the Virgin” (Harl. 2,936). The book is attributed to the Master of Martainville and includes 24 miniatures with foliate borders (such as this one) in colours [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Victorian floral border, red]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/049-victorian-border-red-q85-139x200.jpg "[picture: Victorian floral border, red]")
A version of a printed floral Victorian border used to surround the page of an 1860 book. This version is coloured red like the original. Like many late nineteenth-century designs, this border is clearly inspired by mediaeval decoration, although [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter L from XIV. Century No. 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-letterL-q75-168x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter L from XIV. Century No. 1]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter L from XIV. Century No. 1
Calligraphic letter L from XIV. Century No. 1. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Decorative initial letter M from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-m-135x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter M from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
Decorative initial letter M from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter M from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Plate 71.---Fifteenth century No. 1b.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/71-Fifteenth-Century-1b-234x200.jpg "[picture: Plate 71.---Fifteenth century No. 1b.]")
Plate 71.—Fifteenth century No. 1b.
“A series of bold initials from detached fragments in the South Kensington Museum.” (p. 103) [more...] [$]
Images scanned from The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times by W. R. Tymms, with an Essay and Instructions by M. D. Wyatt, Architect. London. Published April 2nd 1860 by Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen.
There are 100 full colour plates in the book done in chromolithography, as well as a chromolithographed title page. I have only scanned a few because my scanner damages the binding. The text is by Matthew Digby Wyatt and the images appear to have been made by W. R. Tymms (and not Symms, as this page used to say).
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