Chapter 4 dealt with a form of writing that was popular between the era of the Roman Empire to the early Renaissance. This form was called "illuminated manuscripts", costly books that were created with shimmering colors and Celtic illustrations and designs.
2. Name the one thing (or person) you found most interesting from the reading.
I found half unicals to be interesting. Since writing before these manuscripts just had simple alphabets with letters all looking the same and these half unicals come along suggesting a new form of grammatical tool: capitalization and lower case letters.
3. State at least one question you have after the reading.
Were the colors used in the illuminated manuscripts created from plants or what? Did they use gold to give it that "shimmer" the book was always talking about? Did they even find a way to shave or liquify precious metals in such a way that it could be used on paper without damaging the substrate?
1. Name of graphic style (or topic) studied this session:
Illuminated manuscripts and its production.
2. Describe specific qualities of this style (or if it’s a topic-highlights of that topic) that will help you identify it in the future.
Illuminated manuscripts are hard to pinpoint since there were many different styles of the script, including Celtic, Roman, classical, Spanish, ect... However, illuminated manuscripts can be differentiated from earlier writings in the fact that they added new grammatical tools to writing such as fonts, capitalization, and illustration.
3. What is the most useful or meaningful thing you learned today?
I learned that it didn't really matter what style of illuminated manuscript it was, they were all made by pretty much the same process and every manuscript was a book honoring God in some way (it was always religious).
Would you say it was more the illustration of the pages or the color and style of type that characterized illuminated manuscripts?
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