Illuminated Manuscripts
Manuscripts decorated with gold or silver or now we can call just any decorated manuscriptas illuminated manuscript.
Earliest examples are from the period AD 400 to 600 but the majority of surviving manuscripts are from the Middle Ages.
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Scriptorium was a room for professional copying of manuscripts. A separate class of specialists were adding rubrics and illumination to manuscripts.
Technique
- The text was usually written first
- General layout of the page was planned
- The page was lightly ruled with a pointed stick
- The scribe went to work with ink-pot
After the invention of printing press, these beautiful hand written books gave their places to books that aremass produced and became everyday objects.
Initials and Diminuendo
What makes these manuscripts so beautiful and captivating is probably initials and the diminuendo. Diminuendo is the arrangement of type in which a large letter or word leads the eye. Letters starting with a large initial and
progressively diminishing the point size of the type. It provides a smooth transitio between initial and body text.
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| Large initial L from a Romanesque Bible |
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| Opening of main text, with large illuminated initial, rubric, and 1-line red initial. (12th century) |
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| diminuendo |
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| A set of sixteenth-century initial capitals, which is missing a few letters |
Today, that is also an important part of editorial design and sometimes used to lead the reader into a chapter of a book or a section of an article.
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| Designed by Deb Pang Davis for Natioanal Geographic Traveler Magazine |
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| Diminuendo, quote from 'Blade Runner' Marker and pen on bristol board 19x24" |
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