Manuscript Illumination in 19th-century Italy. Material Analysis of Two Partial Copies from the Squarcialupi Codex

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Universität Hamburg
Erscheinungsjahr:
2021
Medientyp:
Text
Schlagworte:
  • CSMC
  • SFB950
  • UWA
  • Manuscript
  • Artefact Profiling
  • Written Artefacts
  • Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
  • Kunstpalast
  • Düsseldorf
  • Z02
  • B03
  • RFA08
  • Mobile Lab
  • non-invasive
  • non-destructive
  • Reflectography
  • Dino-Lite
  • Visible Reflectance Spectroscopy
  • VIS
  • EXACT
  • X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy
  • XRF
  • ELIO
  • Infrared Reflectography
  • APOLLO
  • parchment
  • iron-gall ink
  • carbon ink
  • pigments
  • gold
  • brass
  • pigment identification
  • 15th century CE
  • 19th century CE
  • antiphonary
  • Latin
  • Italy
  • musical notation
  • Squarcialupi codex
  • manuscript illumination
  • illumination
  • carbon pre-drawing
  • ars nova notation
  • Wilfrid Michael Voynich
  • Hans Rothschild's Antiquarian Bookshop, Cologne
Beschreibung:

  • The illuminations in two Italian manuscripts are still a mystery today. Both manuscripts were based fully or partly on the Florentine Squarcialupi Codex (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Med. Pal. 87) dating from around 1410/15. With the help of a multi-analytical, non-destructive approach employing mobile instrumentation (XRF spectroscopy, visible reflectance spectroscopy and infrared reflectography), we examined the manuscripts Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 09700 and Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast, Inv. K 1925-67 for the first time with regard to their production processes. The identification of modern pigments allows them to be contextualized in illumination practices of the 19th century. Manuals of that time provide a wealth of information on specific illumination practices and the availability of writing and painting materials, which correlates with the actual artefacts.

    The underlying datasets can be found here:

    Scientific Analysis of Manuscript Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 09700

    Scientific Analysis of Manuscript Fragment Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast, Inv. K 1925-67

  • This research was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), first as part of Sonderforschungsbereich 950 (SFB 950) and then under Germany's Excellence Strategy programme (EXC 2176 "Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures", project no. 390893796). The research was conducted within the scope of the work conducted at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Hamburg University .
relatedIdentifier:
DOI 10.25592/uhhfdm.13529 DOI 10.25592/uhhfdm.1419 DOI 10.25592/uhhfdm.1421 DOI 10.1515/opis-2021-0006 DOI 10.25592/uhhfdm.13530
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Forschungsdatenrepositorium der UHH
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