It has two(2) colored initial letters, one of which is very ornate with intricate red lines of the filagree and the blue ink on the letter"A" see the 1st and 2nd scanned images) Beautiful. more and beautiful leaves I have ever seen. I must mention that this particular leaf of the Latin Book of Hours is one of the most unique. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE First of all. As bonding agents in the Middle Ages fish glue, Egg or rubber were used. For black tones lead and bone white, as well as soot were used. For yellow colours stood yellow ochers, Auripigment, lead-yellow, Safran and Wau for order, for green colours green earth, malachite-green and for verdigris as well as Ultramarin, Azurit and Indigo as blue color means. The precious magenta served in the antiquity and in the early Middle Ages contributed to dyeing some particularly magnificent Pergamentmanuskripte, which were then inscribed with gold or silver ink. Red color was often formed by red ochers, Zinnober, Menninge, carmine, Vermiculum, Folium, kite blood(bird) Krapp found and later Brasilholz was used. One painted with thin brushes and water or opaque colors, drawn with india ink and goose keel.
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History of the Art Creation and Color of these pages: Gold foil ornaments could afford to larger extent only princes. If you look closely, you can see the liquid gold shine in the illuminated letters, a perfect reflection of the care and time taken to make this page. 2 of these initials are three lined as well. With a delicate design in each letter in gold, surrounded by red, purple, green and blue as well. 23 lines of text with 13 gold adorned initials and devices in text. C omplexly arranged and created with the utmost in precision. Gorgeously illuminated medieval piece, ruled with singular red and brown medieval cursive. Probably Italian or French, second half of 15th Century. With beautiful script hand, gold floral bordering and intricate gold adorned initials. more This is a rare GOLD and FLORAL adorned manuscript leaf on vellum from a Book of Hours. Illumination was done with gold leaf most often, although some illumination was also done with silver and platinum.YOU ARE BIDDING ON A NEARLY 600 YEAR OLD VELLUM LEAF OF GORGEOUSLY HAND PAINTED ADORNED AND ILLUMINATED TEXT FROM A CATHOLIC BOOK OF HOURS CIRCA 1450-1500. Black ink was made from a mixture involving oak galls, and a variety of colored inks were made from other minerals such as lapis lazuli for blue and cinnabar for orange. Scribes wrote with quills made from duck or geese feathers that were likewise soaked and placed in heated sand to firm them up the feathers were removed and a nib for writing cut into the tip.
OLD MANUSCRIPTS VELLUM SKIN
Vellum is made from calf skin while parchment is commonly made from goat or sheep skin. Parchment and vellum are made by soaking an animal skin in an alkaline bath usually with the mineral lime, then the skin is stretched, scraped, and dried. The most important aspects of manuscripts as defined here are the use of parchment and the use of specific materials and tools to write on the parchment. The conception of the medieval manuscript is also bound up with the image of male scribes in monasteries, although recent evidence has been discovered to show there were female scribes as well. When discussing manuscripts from this era, the iconic medieval manuscript from Western Europe and the British Isles written in Latin and associated with the spread of Christianity most commonly comes to mind, although there are many examples of early manuscripts from the Middle East and Asia, such as the gold-lettered manuscripts on black burnished paper from Tibet (see blog post link below). Manuscript literally means "written with the hand," and in the western tradition, manuscripts are hand-written on parchment or vellum, which is untanned animal skin.
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