SMC228H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Historiated Initial, Rubrication, Wax Tablet
23 Sep 2020
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The medieval manuscript and scribal culture: format, materials, writing supports, script, binding, decorations. Continuities between medieval book culture and modern-world communication. Gutenberg bible designed to mimic handwritten counterparts (layout, lettering, materials), hard to separate the two. Manuscripts defined by individuality, targeted at specific audience (unlike mass naute of print), forms familiarity between scribe and reader which contributes to physical characteristics of manuscript, required significant resources to achieve product, reflect what reader wanted. Certain physical features speak to culture at the time. The first version of a book that the world saw. Book and text are not the same, a book carries text, but is older than a printed object. Gospel of john found in the coffin of st. cuthbert is oldest to survive with original binding, but it is older if binding is not a factor. Considering other examples of book , we can start to define it as an object that consists of multiple leaves bound together .
