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Iconography - The study of the meaning of images, including their symbolic content.Illumination - The embellishment of a manuscript with luminous colours (especially gold and silver).Incipit - The opening words of a text, from the Latin verb incipere ('to begin').Incipit page - The opening of a major section of text that is embellished with a large initial or monogram and display script.Incunable - A printed book produced before 1501, that is, when the process of printing from movable type was in its infancy (pl. incunabula).Inhabited initial - An enlarged letter that contains human or animal figures but not an identifiable narrative scene.Initial - An enlarged and decorated letter introducing an important section of a text.Ink - The word derives from the Latin encaustum ('burnt in'), since the gallic and tannic acids in ink and the oxidation of its ingredients cause it to eat into the writing surface.Ink lake - An ink stain on a page.Instructions - Stationers, scribes, or illuminators often gave written instructions as to the form, content, or color of what was to be painted.Insular - Describes features characteristic of manuscripts made in Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages.Interlace - A decoration consisting of apparently interwoven straps or ribbons.Italic - see Humanist minuscule