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Manuscript
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Manuscript
- Place of origin:
Germany (illuminated)
- Date:
15th century (illuminated)
- Artist/Maker:
unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Printed black and red ink on parchment with hand illumination using water-based pigments and gilding
- Museum number:
241:5
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level F, case EDUC, shelf 11
This is a page from a German Missal, the service book containing the text necessary for the performance of the mass. The text on the page is printed and the initial is hand-painted. The initial shows God the Father. 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.
