illuminator

plural illuminators · alternative illuminatour

1. Agent noun of illuminate:
   1. One who illuminates; an explainer.
   2. An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscriptsᵂ.

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      The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

      2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist