Meanings of illuminate missal in English

S. Mark's is described by Ruskin as an illuminated missal in mosaic.

She did not raise her eyes from the illuminated missal she was studying.

The rose-window above the projecting porch was adorned with blue campanula, like the first page of an illuminated missal.

In his portrait Leo X has an illuminated missal and a magnifying glass, as indication of his scholarly tastes.

Once again in the old book-room, Win recovered his self-possession in admiration of its treasures of illuminated missal and manuscript.

His chaplain, dressed in Popish canonicals, was mumbling forth some form of prayer, and a splendidly- illuminated missal lay open before him.

With what eagerness would pictures, medals, and illuminated missals have been brought forth from the most mysterious cabinets for her amusement!

Ruined castles and abbeys, coats of mail, illuminated missals, manuscript romances, black-letter ballads, old tapestries, and wood carvings acquired a new value.

To obtain this advance he had pledged an illuminated missal of considerably greater value, and now he had come prepared to redeem it.

Below, the scroll of the world unrolled like some vast and intricately illuminated missal, or like some strange mosaic, marvellously minute....