I’m An Open Book

@fyeahmyths​ two week summer myth event

Manuscript cuttings.

1) Leaf from Choirbook with initial S in red pen-work on green and blue ground depicting a dragon (Netherlands, late 12th century).

2) Parchment; Pigments; Ink (no date given). Medieval or Renaissance.

3) Initial letter ‘J’ on vellum, burnished gold ground with winged animal and leaf decoration in colour (Italian, 1400-1500).

4) Initial from a Choirbook (Italian; 15th century). Parchment; Pigments; Ink.

5) Parchment; Pigments; Ink (no date given). Medieval or Renaissance.

6) Initial ‘O’ from a Choirbook.(Italy, 14th century-15th century) by Cristoforo Cortese. Illumination on vellum, in rose madder and green on a panel of stamped and burnished gold.

7) Initial ‘C’ from a Choirbook (Italy, late 14th century).

8) Cut-out historiated initial ’M’ with two birds (Lombardy, 15th century). Water-based pigments and burnished gold on parchment.

9) Cut-out decorated initial 'O’ (Lombardy, 15th century). Mosaic gold (an artifical gold pigment containing tin sulphide) and burnished gold leaf (gold paint that has been polished to shine).

10) Decorated initial ‘O’ from a manuscript (Flanders, early 16th century).

Images and text information courtesy V&A.

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