Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages

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Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages
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Monastic illuminator
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Responsibility for production of manuscripts
shifts from a clerical, monastic environment to a
secular one. Stationers become the principal
organizers of the production and sale of
manuscripts.
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Parchment Parchment come from various animal
hides. Soaked in lime then scraped, bleached, and
cut to size. Hair and flesh side. Vellum from
calf skin.
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Full sheet, folio, quarto and octavo
Folding a sheet of paper or parchment
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Gathering individual leaves into quires
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Binding the quires together through stitching
with cords to create a book.
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Attaching boards to the sewn quires to complete
the binding of a book.
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Scribe
Illuminator
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Ruling and pricking a manuscript page
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A ruling board.
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Metz, 2/4 14th century
Northern France, early 14th century
Two examples of Gothic Bookhand
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Line filler
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Illuminators at work Tempera
Pigment Vehicle Binder
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Ornamentation of the Manuscript Page
Baguettes Marginalia Initials Decorated
Foliate Historiated Bas-de-pages Semi-homines
Page from the Belleville Breviary.
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