Piety in pieces
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  alternate name: Civilization, Medieval
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  alternate name: Codicology
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  alternate name: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
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  alternate name: Codicology
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  alternate name: Books and reading--Europe--History--To 1500
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Civilization, Medieval
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
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  alternate name: Manuscripts, Medieval
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  alternate name: Manuscripts, Medieval
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  alternate name: Books and reading
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128856
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128858
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320129968
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330136162
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330137755
abstract: "Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, illuminators, book binders) with labour-intensive processes using exclusive and sometimes exotic materials (parchment made from dozens or hundreds of skins, inks and paints made from prized minerals, animals and plants), books were expensive and built to last. They usually outlived their owners. Rather than discard them when they were superseded, book owners found ways to update, amend and upcycle books or book parts.... Rudy considers ways in which book owners adjusted the contents of their books from the simplest (add a marginal note, sew in a curtain) to the most complex (take the book apart, embellish the components with painted decoration, add more quires of parchment). By making sometimes extreme adjustments, book owners kept their books fashionable and emotionally relevant. This study explores the intersection of codicology and human desire. Rudy shows how increased modularisation of book making led to more standardisation but also to more opportunities for personalisation. She asks: What properties did parchment manuscripts have that printed books lacked? What are the interrelationships among technology, efficiency, skill loss and standardisation?"--Back cover.
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31098731
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Notes to the reader -- Abbreviations used in this book -- Introduction: A new approach to codicology -- Types of augmentations -- Part I: The modular method -- A. Modular and non-modular, compared -- B. The hierarchy of decoration -- C. Modules and blank space -- D. Precursors of book modules -- E. Implications of the modular method -- F. Adopters of the modular method -- G. Complicated stratigraphy -- Part II: Changes that did not require rebinding -- A. Correcting the text -- B. Adding text to the blank folios and interstices ; 1. Noting who owned, commissioned, and paid for items ; 2. Adding family information ; 3. Adding legal documents ; 4. Adding a gloss ; 5. Adding calendrical data ; 6. Changing a text to reflect updated circumstances ; 7. Adding text to make a book appropriate as a didactic tool ; 8. Adding prayers -- C. Augmenting the existing decoration -- D. Drawing or painting images directly onto bound parchment -- E. Adding physical material superficially ; 1. Attaching parchment sheets to blank areas of the book ; 2. Adding other objects to blank parchment -- Part III: Changes that required rebinding -- Rebinding -- A. Adding leaves bearing texts -- B. Adding leaves bearing images ; 1. Images for the most common offices ; 2. Images for indulgences ; 3. Portraits and personalizing details ; 4. Images for adding value ; 5. Images for missals ; 6. Other single-leaf miniatures ; 7. Packages of images ; 8. Images removed from one manuscript and inserted into another -- C. Adding quires ; 1. Adding a bifolium ; 2. Adding one or more full quires -- Part IV: Complicated interventions and complete overhauls -- Building a book out of disparate quires -- A. An atelier in Bruges -- B. Unica -- C. The convent of St. Ursula ; 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Rawl. Liturg. E.9* ; 2. The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Ms. 132 G 38 ; 3. Uppsala, Universitetsbiblioteket, Ms. C 517 k -- D. The convent of St. Agnes in Delft -- E. The Masters of the Dark Eyes ; 1. Alongs…
temporal coverage: 1390-1500
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301283984

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