Limner

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A limner is an illuminator of manuscripts, or more generally, a painter of ornamental decoration. A mention of medieval limners' work appears in the book Methods and Materials of Painting by Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865).

"The treatises [on oil painting] cannot be placed later than the thirteenth, or beginning of the fourteenth, century. This was the age of Dante, and 'the art which in Paris was called illuminating' (limning) is well illustrated by such guides." p. 45

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