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Illuminated
Manuscripts
The Designer Books
Past to Present
By Ms. Urioste
During the 1450’s,
known as the
Medieval times in
Europe,
Johannes Gutenberg
of Germany invented
an revolutionary
device called the
Printing Press.
This invention made
it possible for the
common man to be
able to afford books,
and also changed the
appearance of books
to black print on
white pages.
Before their was the
printing press there were
Illuminated Manuscripts.
It is a manuscript where the text is
supplemented by the addition of
images, such as decorated initials,
borders and miniature
illustrations.
Egyptian Origins
Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scrolls
1570 BC
0
The Papyrus of Ani
.
What material were the early
manuscripts written on?
What materials were they drawn with?
Papyrus and Parchment (animal skin)
Minerals, resins, carbon and plant dyes.
Early Materials Before
Paper
The Egyptians
understood and practiced
many of the timeless
principles of Graphic
Design.
papyrus
They color coded their
hieroglyphs, and the word
for color was used as a
synonym for “Essence” or
“Character.”
vellum/parchment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum
Before paper: The Process of Bookmaking
azurite
saffron
yellow ochre
GREEN
indigo
lapis lazuli
woad
orpiment
Materials & Techniques: Making Pigment
BLUE
malachite
YELLOW
Materials & Techniques:
Egg Glair and Gold Leafing
Materials & Techniques:
Making Pigment
calcite
cochineal
RED
WHITE
iron
ash
BROWN
lead
lime
black
reds purples
yellows
decorated initial
Materials & Techniques:
Manuscript Components
drollery & grotesques
miniature & marginalia
carpet page
historiated initial
What is the Carpet Page?
Carpet pages are devoted solely to
ornamentation with brilliant colors,
active lines and complex patterns.
On the Soul
On Memory,
“The soul never thinks without an image.”
What does Illuminated stand for?
What is Historiated Margines?
The embellishment of the text of
handwritten books with gold and silver.
Drawings and writing that border the text
and images of the page.
Carolingian Style
The Book of Kells
Irish & English Manuscripts Manuscripts:
The Book of Kells by the
English and Irish
Highly decorative Insular Art
(Celtic style) with bright color and
gold. The calligraphy is the
roman alphabet.
Classical, Early Christian & Byzantine Manuscripts
Copies of Virgil and Homer’s Iliad
Rossano Gospels &
De Materia Medica
Vienna Dioscorides
Classical Early Christian
and Byzantine
Written in Latin, with some color
and imagery but plain and not
very ornamental.
Irish & English Manuscripts:
The Lindisfarne Gospels
Romanesque Manuscripts:
The Winchester Bible
Romanesque
This style had Colorful Large
Initials with writings in the
margins.
February
October
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
Gothic Manuscripts:
Gothic
These manuscripts featured
miniature paintings done on
paper during the middle ages.
Muslim Illuminators sought to glorify the Word. Even on
pages coated in gold, in what they called a “Golden
Ecstasy,” the Word reigns supreme. The Korans seem
immune from domination by image, by color by
decoration.
All is Subservient to the WORD.
Arabic & Persian Manuscripts
page from Kalilah & Dimnah
Pages from the Koran
Muslim
These manuscripts were more about
the Word than image. Highly
decorated with repeating patterns.
Indian & Asian Manuscripts
Prayer book Leaf
From Bhagavad Gita.
Asian and Indian
Color played a large part to the
symbolism of the states of Buddha
or meditation.
The Buddhists used color to symbolize the
various spiritual states of the Buddha. The
five colors – yellow, red, green, white and
blue – correspond to the five states of
Meditation, called the Dhyani.
Buddhist Manuscripts
The artists personified the concept of power, faith, charity, and male
and female
with their images.
Buddhist
These manuscripts tried to
personify the states of power,
faith and charity and men and
women with their images.
Mayan artifacts are unique in their marriage of word
and image
Mayan
Manuscripts had a marriage of the
word with the image.
Dante in 1880’s
Dante before Gutenberg
Dante during Gutenberg
Black print on white paper
http://www.goodbyegutenberg.com/
Books of the Past are a
guide, not a limitation, and
not a destiny.
Jackson Pollock,
“The modern painter cannot
express this age, the
airplane, the atom bomb,
the radio, in the old forms
of the Renaissance or of any
other past culture.”
Valerie Kirschbaum writes in her book
Goodbye Gutenberg,
“The Impressionists explored new realms of
emotional experience, realms that been excluded by a
unidimensional way of painting. Likewise, writers today
will explore new realms of emotional experience, realms
that until now have been excluded by a black and white,
unidimensional, Gutenberg way of writing.”
Who wrote the illuminated
manuscripts and what do they call the
art of beautiful writing?
Scribe, monks, and illuminators
worked in a special room called a
Scriptorium.
Calligraphy
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