Scribes and Illuminators (Medieval Craftsmen Series)

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Illuminated manuscripts live on in great numbers from the Middle Ages. They’re steadily beautifully preserved, enabling us to appreciate the skilled design and craftsmanship of the individuals who created them.

Christopher de Hamel describes every stage of production from the preparation of the vellum, pens, paints and inks to the writing of the scripts and the final decoration and illumination of the book. He then examines the role of the stationer or bookshop in co-ordinating book production and describes the supply of exemplars and the accuracy of texts. He follows the careers of a lot of specific scribes and illuminators who emerge not as anonymous monks but as identifiable professional lay artisans. He also looks at {those who|individuals who|folks that|folks who} bought the completed books, why they did so, and what kind of they paid.

His survey ranges from the eleventh century throughout the golden age of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the luxurious manuscripts existing on the invention of printing.

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