THEO 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Illuminated Manuscript, Celtic Christianity, Insular Art
20 Mar 2020
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Manuscripts that included the use of gold or silver leaf or paint. All illustration and decoration of early manuscripts: enduring attraction. As manuscripts were portable, they were a useful means of transmitting ideas and artistic styles from one region to another, becoming widely produced and used. The development of the printing press in europe in the 15th century, illumination was replaced by printed illustrations: manuscript-making as spiritual practice, the making of illuminated manuscripts was also regarded as a spiritual practice by. Introduced innovations like word separation and systematic punctuation, which increased legibility: we know the members of the gregorian mission to britain brought with them. Continental and perhaps eastern christian manuscripts, as well as icons: the make-up of an insular manuscript. A manuscript in book form is called a codex. Folios are the leaves or sheets of a manuscript. Folios are made of vellum, the fine-grained prepared skin of lambs, kids (young goats) or calves.
