Hundreds of Illuminated Manuscripts now available online



The invention of the moveable type printing press by Gutenberg in 1455 CE made books increasingly accessible. Of course, those books were only available to those who were literate. Nevertheless, the moveable press changed the way we communicated.

from https://wildhunt.org/2019/03/hundreds-of-illuminated-manuscripts-now-available-online.html
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