This week – Respond any or all of these general questions:
What stood out to you in this week’s reading (and perhaps the “What to Look For” talk) that was either new information to you that you think is worth remembering or was just of particular interest?
This isn’t super ancient history we’re talking about here, but… kinda.
What interests you and your imagination when you think back to early China or the rise and fall of Rome or when you imagine monks making manuscripts or life before and at the moment of the arrival of printed materials?
What do you think of ‘the Dark Ages’? in general? Does it surprise you to learn a bit of what was going on then?
What is the form and function of Graphic Design at this general point in history?
Meggs’ History of Graphic Design
Sixth Edition
Chapter 3
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C. 680
Book of Durrow, opening page, the Gospel of Saint Mark
C. 800
Coronation Gospels, opening pages of Saint Mark’s Gospel
A copyist writing on a sheet of parchment
St. Jerome learning to write on parchment
1180
Gospels of Henry the Lion, cover
C. 1400
Book with space hollowed out for owner’s spectacles
C. 1400
Collection of French and Italian love songs
ATTRIBUTED TO SAINT COLUMBA C. 794 – 806
Book of Kells, the Chi-Rho page
ATTRIBUTED TO SAINT COLUMBA C. 794 – 806
Book of Kells, canon table of the four Gospels
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Book of Kells, symbols for the authors of the four Gospels
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Book of Kells, beginning of the summaries of Matthew
ATTRIBUTED TO SAINT COLUMBA C. 794 – 806
Book of Kells, St. John the Evangelist
ATTRIBUTED TO SAINT COLUMBA C. 794 – 806
Book of Kells, the genealogy of Christ page
C. 698
The Lindisfarne Gospels, initial page of the Gospel of Matthew
C. 698
Lindisfarne Gospels, carpet page facing the opening of Saint Matthew
C. 800
Codex Aureus, stolen by Vikings and ransomed back in 880
C. 1300
Illuminated Qur’ân – text is written in Rayhani and Kufic
C. EARLY 1200S
Maimonides’ A Guide to the Perplexed
945
Moalia in lob, commemorative labyrinth
1047
Beatus of Fernando and Sancha, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1047
Beatus of Fernando and Sancha, the fourth angel
1265
Douce Apocalypse, multitude worshipping God
C. EARLY 1300S
Ormesby Psalter
C. LATE 1200S
Liber regimenti acutorum, medical text
1410
The Canterbury Tales
WILLIAM OF DEVON C. 1200S
Bible
C. 1400
Jack of Diamonds, woodblock-printed playing card
C. 1400
Jack of Spades, woodblock-printed playing card
1466
Ars Moriendi, “the art of dying”
c. 1394 – 1468
Johann Gutenberg
Mainz, Germany
Johann Gutenberg
Gutenberg’s workshop
Reproduction in the Gutenberg Museum, Germany
JOHANN GUTENBERG 1450
Gothic moveable type
Gutenberg’s system for casting type
Type mold
Type mold
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Matrix
Printing press
JOHANN GUTENBERG C. 1454
Letters of Indulgence
Jan Fust and Johann Gutenberg
JOHANN GUTENBERG 1450-55
The Gutenberg Bible
JOHANN GUTENBERG 1450-55
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JOHANN GUTENBERG 1450 – 55
Gutenberg Bible detail
JOHANN GUTENBERG 1450 – 55
Gutenberg Bible detail
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JAN FUST AND PETER SCHOEFFER 1459
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1468
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