The Structure of a Medieval Manuscript
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Uploaded by gettymuseum on Jan 27, 2009
For more than a thousand years all manuscripts were written and illustrated by hand. By the Middle Ages, books were being made by folding sheets of parchment, arranging them into gatherings, and assembling and binding them together. This animation from the Getty Museum illustrates how medieval books were constructed--a feat of engineering that remains essentially the same today.
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Few questions - what is the difference between a Parchment and a Vellum? Were parchments and Vellums printed upon or only hand written? And what is the difference between a Codex and a Book?
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A simple and very useful illustration. Really liked it.
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great animation
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@lorenzofraga Thank you!
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Very nicely done! Thank you.
zxbee 2 years ago
@zxbee You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it :)
gettymuseum 1 year ago