Illuminated Manuscripts

To continue our learning about the plague in the 14th century, Year 5 have been studying illuminated manuscripts. These were books, mainly written by monks, that were heavily decorated. The decorations included intricately painted initials, borders and small images. Some of these books were even painted with real gold or silver as they were that special!

We designed our initial in the style of an illuminated manuscripts.

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