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Making Art
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Making art: Medieval manuscripts
The best way to discover how medieval manuscripts were made is
to look at unfinished examples. The reconstruction in this
animation is based on a page from an early fourteenth-century
book made for a French bishop, Reynaud de Bar. Its called the Metz
Pontifical.
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Click on the image to see how a manuscript like the Metz Pontifical was made.
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| Find out more about these works from the collection that were made using the same technique |
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Unknown maker, England
Psalter, c.1220 |
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Unknown maker, England
Bestiary, c.1220 - 1230 |
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Master Honoré,
fl.1288 - 1318
Leaves from La Somme
le Roi, c.1300 |
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Unknown makers,
France and England
Gratian's Decretum,
c.1300 - 30 |
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Unknown maker, France
The Metz Pontifical,
1302 - 1316 |
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Don Silvestro dei
Gherarducci, 1339 - 1399
The Presentation
in the Temple,
from a choirbook, 1370 - 1 |
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Unknown maker, France
Roman de la Rose, c.1398 |
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Rohan master, active
c.1410 1440
Book of Hours, c.1415 |
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