Illustrated manuscript
One of the most common forms of Medieval Art. The illustrated texts have usually religious style (because of the monastic origin of habit). The decorative elements sometimes relate only to the letters and patterns on the margins of the text and sometimes include miniatures and illustrations, covering the entire page. Rich colors, and especially a lavish use of the gold and the silver, is a further feature of the species. Despite the advent of printing, illustrated manuscripts survived for a short time, only to disappear with the development of typographic illustration in the 16th century. As examples of this kind of art deserves to be mentioned, the Book of Kels, the Gospels of Lintisfarn, the Psalter of the Latrell and so-called books of hours (for example, Very rich hours of the Duke of Bery).