Week 2 Study Guide Questions

Today I spent a few hours reading through some of the essays on the Art and Books website. I also had a look at the essential reading which I did find boring but informing. It took me several attempts to be able to finish the large chunk of reading but I found that I picked up quite a lot of information about illuminated manuscripts and the process that was behind the making of them. The essential reading Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Manuscript Books brought to my attention even more the fact that the creation of illuminated manuscripts was a long and time consuming process that took not only knowledge of art and writing but also required the production of vellum (animal skin), or parchment so that the scribes had some medium to write on. Also the production of manuscripts also required that new inks were made and certain pigments, such as blue, had to be imported before the actual writing and painting process could take place.