This paper opens a series of works on Czech art-historical terminology of medieval book painting. In the logic of the system of illumination description it focuses on the definition of basic terms in comparison to foreign literature. Moreover, it presents a preliminary typology of acanth ornaments, commented in regard to the genesis and chronology of the frequence of the studied samples in European book painting.
This paper opens a series of works on Czech art-historical terminology of medieval book painting. In the logic of the system of illumination description it focuses on the definition of basic terms in comparison to foreign literature. Moreover, it presents a preliminary typology of acanth ornaments, commented in regard to the genesis and chronology of the frequence of the studied samples in European book painting.