Illumination And Its Development In the Present Day

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Author

Farnsworth, Sidney, 1886-1926

Title

Illumination and Its Development in the Present Day

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

ND: Fine Arts: Painting

Subject

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Category

Text

eBook-No.

48157

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48157

Release Date

February 4, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ILLUMINATION AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE PRESENT DAY
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.ILLUMINATION AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE PRESENT DAY
7. 7.CHAPTER I THE INFLUENCE OF THE TOOL
8. 8.CHAPTER II THE DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING IN THE PAST — MAJUSCULE WRITING — SQUARE CAPITALS — RUSTIC CAPITALS — UNCIALS — MIXED UNCIAL AND MINUSCULE WRITING — HALF-UNCIALS — IRISH HALF-UNCIALS — ENGLISH HALF-UNCIALS — MINUSCULE WRITING — LOMBARDIC WRITING — VISIGOTHIC WRITING — MEROVINGIAN WRITING — CARLOVINGIAN WRITING — LATER STYLES
9. 9.CHAPTER III THE PREPARATION AND USE OF THE PEN
10. 10.CHAPTER IV THE FORMATION OF LETTERS
11. 11.CHAPTER V FORMING WORDS AND SENTENCES
12. 12.CHAPTER VI ALPHABETS FOR STUDY, BASED ON HISTORICAL EXAMPLES
13. 13.CHAPTER VII ROMAN LETTERING
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII SOME HISTORICAL EXAMPLES OF ROMAN LETTERING
15. 15.CHAPTER IX A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ILLUMINATION (1) From the Fourth to the Eleventh Century — CLASSICAL AND BYZANTINE ILLUMINATION — CELTIC AND ANGLO-CELTIC ILLUMINATION — CARLOVINGIAN ILLUMINATION — THE WINCHESTER SCHOOL
16. 16.CHAPTER X A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ILLUMINATION ( continued ) (2) From the Twelfth Century to its Decline — ILLUMINATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY — THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ILLUMINATION — ILLUMINATION IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY — ILLUMINATION IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY AND LATER
17. 17.CHAPTER XI THE INITIAL LETTER
18. 18.CHAPTER XII SIMPLE ILLUMINATION IN BLACK AND RED
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII THE COLOURS USED BY THE MEDIÆVAL ILLUMINATOR
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV COLOURS: THEIR COMPOSITION AND PERMANENCE — YELLOW PIGMENTS — RED PIGMENTS — BLUE PIGMENTS — GREEN PIGMENTS — BROWN PIGMENTS — BLACK PIGMENTS — WHITE PIGMENTS
21. 21.CHAPTER XV COLOURS: THEIR PREPARATION AND USE
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI THE GILDING METHODS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII THE USE OF GOLD
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII ILLUMINATION WITH GOLD AND COLOURS
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF ILLUMINATION
26. 26.CHAPTER XX THE ILLUMINATED ADDRESS
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI THE VARIOUS METHODS OF REPRODUCTION
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII CHRISTMAS CARDS
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII LETTERING FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV HAND-WRITTEN POSTERS, ETC.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV THE ILLUMINATED MS. BOOK
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI A SIMPLE METHOD OF BINDING MSS.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII THE ILLUMINATION OF THE PRINTED BOOK
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII PRINTED BOOK DECORATION
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX CONCLUDING REMARKS
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX NOTES ON BOOKS
37. 37.INDEX
38. 38.Transcriber’s Notes

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