What is an illuminated address? Is it flashing lights on your front door or an envelope with your home address artistically embellished? No. It is in fact a formal greeting or the honouring of someone with a large, profusely decorated document. Often written on parchment, the more ostentatious examples might be bound in a leather folder, lined with silk and lavishly decorated in gold and silver. The sentiments in the message are expressed in formal language and handwritten in ornamental scripts such as copperplate or modern Gothic Textura.
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