Making manuscripts발음듣기
Making manuscripts
The transition from a fresh skin to a surface suitable for writing was a slow and laborious process.발음듣기
After this, the skin was soaked in fresh water to remove the lime, and then stretched tightly on a frame.발음듣기
During this time, the parchment maker continually tightened the tension on the stretching frame while the skin dried.발음듣기
The result was parchment, a smooth and durable material that could last over a thousand years.발음듣기
First, the parchment was rubbed with pumice powder to roughen the surface, and then dusted with a sticky powder.발음듣기
The whole finished skin was then cut down to the size of the pages needed for a particular book.발음듣기
The parchment sheets were folded and nested to make gatherings, usually of sixteen or twenty pages.발음듣기
Pens, called quills, were made from the feathers of a bird, which were soaked in water, dried, and hardened with heated sand.발음듣기
The scribe carved the quill to a rough point, cut a slit to draw ink down, then trimmed the point to the proper width.발음듣기
Because the page was made from parchment, which was very resilient, it could stand many erasures of this type.발음듣기
The illuminator first sketched his design, then added details, such as the features of a figure or the interlacing of a decorated initial.발음듣기
The illuminator put down a base coat, consisting of either a plaster-like substance called gesso, or a gum, as shown here.발음듣기
Once the gum base dried, the moisture in the illuminator's breath was enough to make the small piece of gold leaf stick to the page.발음듣기
Each color was made from a vegetable dye or a mineral substance, ground up and dissolved in liquid.발음듣기
Once the illuminator applied black outlines and delicate white highlights to the figures and vines, the illumination was finished.발음듣기
After the scribes and illuminators had finished writing and decorating the parchment pages, the manuscript was bound.발음듣기
Groups of folded sheets of parchment, called gatherings, were sewn together with strong linen thread onto flexible supports, such as these narrow leather thongs.발음듣기
Next, the binder attached end bands, which secured the top and bottom ends of the pages in the spine of the book.발음듣기
The binder then laced the leather thongs along the spine through channels and tunnels, which had been carved into wood boards.발음듣기
Without pressure from the covers to keep the leaves flat, parchment expanded and contracted with changes in temperature and humidity.발음듣기
A manuscript might be covered with leather, stamped or tooled with gold, or covered with silks or velvets.발음듣기
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