Illuminated Manuscripts Coloring Book (Dover Art Masterpieces To Color) Paperback – Coloring Book, May 22, 2013

This is a lovely coloring book with beautiful manuscripts. I find it very meditative to color the pages.

Each image in this book is very detailed and reminiscent of....well....illuminated manuscript pages (obviously). I'm assuming this is an earlier Dover publication because under their new Creative Haven line they print everything single sided now. However, in this book, the images are printed double sided - forcing you to use a medium other than markers or risk serious bleed through onto the backside image. I wish they'd correct this design flaw, especially if they republish any of these books. There are 30 images and, as usual with the Dover Coloring Book series, they feel the need to put a little educational blurb at the bottom or side of each drawing. This doesn't thrill me since I just want to color it and don't want text on the page if I want to display it. However you can simply copy an image to 90lb cardstock paper and print it off on your home printer after putting it through picture editing software (like Paint.net) to remove any unwanted text or page numbers. Then you have a clean one-sided image on good heavy paper to work with. Because the book size lends itself to being copied like this and the images are so detailed, I'm giving it 5 stars.

I've always been fascinated by illuminated manuscripts, so I was very happy to find this book. Having zero artistic talent, I appreciate the skill and patience of the monks who so carefully drew the pictures and decorated the alphabets in these historic manuscripts.I made plain paper copies of all of the pages and used them as masters for copies printed on art tablet paper cut to fit my printer. That way, if I make a mistake or decide that I don't like my color choice, I can start over. I use Prismacolor erasable pencils, and Faber-Castell metallic pencils.There are pages with a great deal of open space as well as some requiring a very sharp pencil, so it's easy to find something to fit your mood.

Great selections make this adult coloring book a great choice for those participating in our newest book craze - adult coloring books. Terrific for therapeutic purposes! I find it great to listen to Gregorian Chant while spending some relaxing time coloring and imagining a much less stressful time - well, provided you didn't have plague, famine, cold weather, etc. Hmm. Actually, much better to color today than back then.

I always enjoy a Marty Noble coloring book and this is no exception. Very intricate and interesting pages. Improvement would be if it were Creative Haven for single plages instead of double sided.

Absolutely beautiful! This is a perfect gift for any Christian who is well versed in Christian history. The illuminated manuscripts are a blessing to color and if you want exact color charts the titles help you Internet search. I color listening to orthodox chant on Spotify and then look it up to see how close my vision was to the original. Works great with colored pencils. ... very sharp colored pencils.

Wonderful book, I've been so entertainned coloring it. Thank you, because Mandala books are too boring for me, but I really love medieval and renaissance stuff.

I go on the internet and look at the original - if I like it I use the color printed in the book. Sometimes I just make up my own color scheme. Very easy to color with color pencils.