![]() Not only are the pages painted black, but the miniatures themselves also use the same dark tones. Made in Bruges (Flanders) between 14, this illuminated manuscript was probably realized for a sophisticated patron of the Burgundian Court. This unusual page color is due to the extremely corrosive process used to dye the vellum with iron gall ink. An Obscure Illuminated Manuscript : The Black Hours Black Hours Manuscript, created in Bruges, 1475-1480 CE, via the Morgan Library and MuseumĪmong the most curious of all illuminated manuscripts, the Black Hours strikes our contemporary eyes with its unique dark blueish shades. Featuring over 160 colour illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.6. Through essays and case studies, the volume's multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Americas - an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. 'Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts' is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books - like today's museums - preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures and everyone's place in it.
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