The general order of the different tasks during the process of writing and decorating a manuscript:
writing - rubrics and simple initials - sketch in dry point or plummet - drawing in black ink - gilding - general application of the basic colors - shadows and lights - shell gold
Writing turned in Ornament
Codicologie:
The medieval calendar served as a map of the Church year. While following the method of the Roman calendar in determining dates, it also listed saints' days and other religious feasts and recorded the phases of the moon. Many calendars also featured related illustrations of saints, feasts, monthly labors, leisure activities, and signs of the zodiac.
Codicologie:
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| Ritratto di Leone X coi cardinali Giulio de' Medici e Luigi de' Rossi circa 1518 |
The open page in Raphael's recently restored portrait of Leo X has been identified as the page showing the Passion in the so-called Hamilton Bible, a 14th c. illuminated Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and owned by Leo's father, Lorenzo the Magnificent.
6.4 Initial Decoration
Codicologie:
De mogelijke typen zijn:
- Labyrint
- tapijt pagina
- Versierde initiaal (volledige pagina of niet)
- auteursportret
- Representatio (afbeelding van beschermheer of toegewijde)
- toewijding
- praesentatio
- boek eigenaar
- Narratieve miniatuur of gehistoriseerde initiaal
Codicologie:
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| Lion musician. Detail from Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305. Verdun, BM, ms. 107, fol. 26r. |
Textmanuscripts 5, a series of Les Enluminures, New York - Chicago - Paris.
