4th Grade: Completed Illuminated Manuscripts

Here are some of our 4th graders' finished illuminated manuscripts. While working on this project, our students learned about the kinds of designs most often used in Gaelic insular (made on an island) art. Each student chose a virtue to illuminate, and wrote their own definitions. Then they designed their own page, employing the abstract patterns and zoological images we learned were used in illuminated manuscripts such as the Book of Kells.