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Manuscript

Manuscript

  • Place of origin:

    Wurzburg, Germany (printed)

  • Date:

    ca. 1484 (printed)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Reyser, Georg (printer)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Printed red and black ink on parchment with hand illumination on burnished gold and green ground

  • Museum number:

    243:1

  • Gallery location:

    Prints & Drawings Study Room, level F, case EDUC11

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This is a leaf from the Würzburg Missal (Missale Herbipolense). A Missal is a service book that contains the text necessary for the performance of the Mass. The text on the page is printed and the initial is hand-painted. It shows the Lamb of God with the banner of the Resurrection. Printing with movable type was invented by a goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg in the Rhineland city of Mainz. The first printed book, the Gutenberg Bible, was produced about 1455. It aimed to copy the design of manuscript (hand-written) books in every respect. Scribes and illuminators were still employed to add the decoration and rubrics by hand.

Place of Origin

Wurzburg, Germany (printed)

Date

ca. 1484 (printed)

Artist/maker

Reyser, Georg (printer)

Materials and Techniques

Printed red and black ink on parchment with hand illumination on burnished gold and green ground

Dimensions

Height: 375 mm, Width: 255 mm

Historical context note

Data taken from notes compiled by Rowan Watson. The full text of the entry is as follows:

'243. 1
WÜRZBURG MISSAL: 'Missale Herbipolense' (Würzburg: Georg Reyser, after 20 Feb. 1484) printed on vellum
Leaf, Printed in black with rubrics and some initials printed in red; on the verso, an illuminated roundel in the lower margin (Lamb of God with banner of the Resurrection, burnished gold and green ground)

Rubric (recto) : Hic teneat terciam partem super calicem. Per omnia secula; (verso) Hic inclinet se ante altare compositis manibus. Domine Iesu Christe

Germany (Würzburg ) . After 20 Feb. 1484
375 x 255 mm; printed space 280 x 180 mm; 19 lines; 1 col.

Bought from J&S Goldschmidt, 1872.'

Subjects depicted

Lamb; Agnus Dei

Categories

Religion; Christianity; Manuscripts

Collection code

PDP

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