By the Romanesque period many more manuscripts had decorated or historiated initials, and manuscripts essentially for study often contained some images, often not in color.
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The page size is approximately 44 x 33 cm, with miniatures of various sizes, from 3 / 4 page and half-page, to historiated initials.
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A "'historiated initial "'is an enlarged letter at the beginning of a paragraph or other section of text, which contains a picture.
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Sometimes this is the only fully illuminated page, and if it is historiated ( i . e . contains a pictured scene ) the Tree is the usual subject.
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The other large initial in the manuscript is the first historiated initial ( one containing a portrait or scene, here Christ or a saint ) in the whole of Europe.
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The fact that the three-volume historiated Bible was separately mentioned in the will written in Seville could mean that it was in the possession of Alfonso at that time.
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Many of the illustrations and historiated initials seem to have been truncated at the top, perhaps the result of the book having been poorly re-bound at some time.
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A Gothic page might contain several areas and types of decoration : a miniature in a frame, a historiated initial beginning a passage of text, and a border with drolleries.
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The illuminated " historiated " decorated initials ( see image this page ) were to have influence into the Romanesque period and were a harmonious union of classical lettering with figural scenes.
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Carpet pages are a characteristic feature of Insular manuscripts, although historiated initials ( an Insular invention ), canon tables and figurative miniatures, especially Evangelist portraits, are also common.
