The "inhabitation" may further be distinguished as "zoömorphic" if there are animal forms, or "anthropomorphic" if there are human forms.
Inhabited: "inhabited" is most often used of borders, but can also be used with reference to initial letters and spray-work, indicating the presence of figures or grotesques. Historiated initial: introductory letter of a text division, containing within the outlines of the letter a pictorial scene or figure related to the text which it introduces (such as a scene from the story or a portrait of the author). Decorated initial: introductory letter of a text division, embellished (not necessarily containing a picture, and not necessarily decorated with something selected for its "appropriateness" to the text which it introduces). Cadel: from a Dutch or French word ("cadel," "cadeau") for a little gift, something "extra" it is used to refer to "extra" items, such as pen-drawn faces or grotesques, added to an initial letter. Border: "a type of book decoration placed around one to four sides of the justification in order to distinguish and decorate main divisions of the text usually more elaborate on the first text page and/or Table of Contents page also used around miniature frames" (Scott 370). Illustration: from illustrare, "to adorn, to embellish" thus it includes what we commonly think of as illustrations (pictorial works in a book), but in technical and medieval usage also includes all decorative elements (even the non-pictorial) in a manuscript. The term is sometimes used loosely to refer more generally to the decoration and illustration of manuscripts, but this blurs distinctions and makes the word less useful. Illumination: "to illuminate" means, of course, to fill with light illuminating a manuscript has to do with using gold and silver in decorative elements, in order, by reflected light, to give the appearance that there is light within the manuscript. "rubrication"), coming to mean a picture, related to the contents (as distinct from an "illustration," which is a picture, for instance drawn in a margin, which is decorative but not related to the contents). Miniature: from the Latin miniare, "to pick out in red" (cf. Flourisher: "A maker of pen-work decoration on initials and of flourish-work or pen-work borders" (Scott 371). Limner: "A general term employed here, following contemporary medieval usage, to denote a maker of either or both miniatures and border or other secondary decoration in a book" (Scott 373). scribe, limner, or binder) and therefore probably trained apprentices" (Scott 376). 
Stationer: "In the late 14th and 15th centuries, a tradesman (and possibly woman) who was engaged in some or all of the following activities: organizing the production of manuscript-books among the various craftsmen involved, selling new and second-hand manuscripts and (later) printed books, acting as the agent in the purchase of books and in importing books, evaluating books and estate books, and selling items not connected with the book trade but who either at the same time or previously may have been a craftsman in the book trade (e.g.
A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles 6 (London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1996), supplemented from a variety of other sources and glossaries. Scott's catalogue of Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390-1490, 2 vols. What follows is a sampling of the terms (and basic concepts) useful in the study of the decorative aspects of medieval manuscripts most of the definitions of these terms presented here are taken from the glossary included in Kathleen L.
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