Medieval Manuscript Leaves
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Medieval Manuscript Leaves
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Books during the medieval period were typically made of vellum (also called parchment), or, occasionally, paper. "The production of books was a collaborative enterprise involving co-operation between different crafts: parchment-maker, scribe, illuminator, and binder, together with, in many cases, a bookdealer who took orders from clients and oversaw the making of the final article."
Before 1200, books were generally produced in monasteries. However, as universities in cities like Paris, Bologna and Oxford began to grow, the demand for books outgrew the abilities of the monasteries to produce them, and lay people stepped in to fill the gap. By 1400, most manuscripts were not produced in monastery scriptoria, but by professional book workers.
(https://ulib.niu.edu/rarebooks/medievalleaves.html)
*Gospel Lectionaire Leaf, Italy, 1150 A.D.,
*Leaf from a Breviary, Northern France, 1400,
*Prayerbook Leaf [Hildesheim], Germany, 1524.
Items located in the Manuscripts Collection {ND3355 .C655 1150a}
