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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: 133
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Lower row of lower-case (miniscule) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-p-z-935x200.jpg "[picture: Lower row of lower-case (miniscule) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.]")
Lower row of lower-case (miniscule) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.
The small (miniscule) letters from p to z; strictly speaking these are not to be called “lower case” since they are for writing and not printing, but it is a distinction no longer widely followed. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter A from XIV. Century No. 1]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-letterA-q75-185x200.jpg "[picture: Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter A from XIV. Century No. 1]")
Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter A from XIV. Century No. 1
Calligraphic letter A from XIV. Century No. 1. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/017-Ninth-Century-05-borders-3-q67-1041x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.]")
Fig. 1 from Ninth Century Borders No. 5.
Border (Figure 3): see overview page for details. [$]
![[picture: Decorative uncial initial letter A from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/074-medieval-red-blue-initial-letter-a-uncial-125x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative uncial initial letter A from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.]")
Decorative uncial initial letter A from fifteenth Century Nos. 4 and 5.
Decorative initial letter A from Fifteenth Century No. 4. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Top row of miniscule (lower-case) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/wm/big/43-a-o-q56-1111x200.jpg "[picture: Top row of miniscule (lower-case) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.]")
Top row of miniscule (lower-case) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.
See XIV. Century No. 1 for the full alphabet, miniscule and majiscule (capitals and small letters). Actually it’s not a full alphabet by modern standards. [more...] [$]
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