Sponsored by The Book Club of California Explore the physical materials, production process, ownership, and readership of medieval manuscripts from 800-1500 in Western Europe in this online presentation. Participants will learn about parchment-making, medieval ink and pigment ingredients, methods for illumination and decoration, and the culture of scriptoria with a […]
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Sponsored by The Grolier Club In 2019, medieval manuscript fragments containing an Arthurian text surfaced unexpectedly at England’s Bristol Central Library and made headlines. Seven folios of a 13th-century copy of the “Suite Vulgate du Merlin” were discovered inside the binding of a four-volume copy of the works of the […]