English: A manuscript containing decorations and/or illustrations with vivid ('luminous') colours, often with gold or silver leaf. In the MMFC-database the term is used to cover a wide range of illustrated and decorated manuscripts. Any manuscripts with illustrations or with figurative decoration are considered to be illuminated. Manuscripts with any form of gilding are also considered to be illuminated. Manuscripts with basic decoration are considered illuminated, as soon as two or more colours or are used in the execution of individual decorative items. Therefore manuscripts containing pen-flourished initials where the pen-flourishing is executed in a different colour from the initial, or parted initials executed in two colours, are marked in the MMFC database as being illuminated. Manuscripts with simple initials executed in one colour, or containing rubrication but no other form of decoration are not considered to be illuminated.