Black manuscripts, written and illuminated on parchment that has been stained, present a figure-ground reversal so that the images and texts seem to step out of darkness. Whereas medieval scribes and illuminators normally began with a luminescent creamy off-white parchment substrate and applied ink and pigments, thereby conceptualizing the image as dark-on-light, makers of these manuscripts began with a dark, opaque substrate and built up light and bright colors, thereby conceptualizing the image and script as light-on-dark. Black books of hours were produced around 1458-1485 for the Burgundian nobility, whose bibliophiles appreciated their exquisite craftsmanship and unusual technique. In three of the most celebrated surviving examples—boo...
The Ohio State University's Rare Books and Manuscripts Library houses a manuscript Book of Hours (MS...
AbstractStudied in the current literature solely for his miniature work at the court of Henry VIII, ...
This study focuses on the illuminated Book of Hours incunabula by the Parisian workshop of the Hardo...
Abstract The book on how to make all the colour paints for illuminating books invites readers to ste...
The late fifteenth and early sixteenth century was a significant transitional period for printmaking...
Illuminated medieval manuscripts can be exquisitely decorated and extremely valuable. Whilst close i...
This thesis considers the adaptation of the Danse macabre (Dance of Death), a popular late medieval ...
A year long commissioned artwork, funded by the Arts Council of England and exhibited as part of a g...
The word “manuscript”, which literally means “handwritten”, is used to describe a book that is produ...
An illuminated Book of Hours (in use in Chalon-sur-Saône) currently owned by the Museo Civico di Art...
Abstract This paper presents the work done as part of a master dissertation on Conservation and Rest...
Manuscript from Southern Netherlands, probably the county of Hainault. -- "Written in dark brown ink...
The transition from manuscript to print technologies was not smooth. This was due in part to the bar...
thesisThe images in HOURS were made from 4 x 4 inch photograms, cyanotypes of found things-plants an...
A Book of Hours written in Dutch was donated to the Syracuse Public Library by J. William Smith in 1...
The Ohio State University's Rare Books and Manuscripts Library houses a manuscript Book of Hours (MS...
AbstractStudied in the current literature solely for his miniature work at the court of Henry VIII, ...
This study focuses on the illuminated Book of Hours incunabula by the Parisian workshop of the Hardo...
Abstract The book on how to make all the colour paints for illuminating books invites readers to ste...
The late fifteenth and early sixteenth century was a significant transitional period for printmaking...
Illuminated medieval manuscripts can be exquisitely decorated and extremely valuable. Whilst close i...
This thesis considers the adaptation of the Danse macabre (Dance of Death), a popular late medieval ...
A year long commissioned artwork, funded by the Arts Council of England and exhibited as part of a g...
The word “manuscript”, which literally means “handwritten”, is used to describe a book that is produ...
An illuminated Book of Hours (in use in Chalon-sur-Saône) currently owned by the Museo Civico di Art...
Abstract This paper presents the work done as part of a master dissertation on Conservation and Rest...
Manuscript from Southern Netherlands, probably the county of Hainault. -- "Written in dark brown ink...
The transition from manuscript to print technologies was not smooth. This was due in part to the bar...
thesisThe images in HOURS were made from 4 x 4 inch photograms, cyanotypes of found things-plants an...
A Book of Hours written in Dutch was donated to the Syracuse Public Library by J. William Smith in 1...
The Ohio State University's Rare Books and Manuscripts Library houses a manuscript Book of Hours (MS...
AbstractStudied in the current literature solely for his miniature work at the court of Henry VIII, ...
This study focuses on the illuminated Book of Hours incunabula by the Parisian workshop of the Hardo...