@article{455079,
      recid = {455079},
      author = {De Hamel, Christopher,},
      title = {Scribes and illuminators /},
      publisher = {University of Toronto Press,},
      address = {Toronto ;},
      pages = {72 p. :},
      year = {1992},
      abstract = {"This survey describes each stage of production from the  preparation of the vellum, pens, paints and inks to the  writing of the scripts and the final decoration and  illumination of the book. The author then examines the role  of the stationer or bookshop in co-ordinating book  production, describes the supply of exemplars and accuracy  of texts, and then follows the careers of a number of  specific scribes and illuminators who emerge not as  anonymous monks but as identifiable professional lay  artisans. He also looks at who bought the completed books  and why, and how much they paid for them. Scribes and  illuminators ends with a glimpse of how the manuscripts  were stored, and how the patrons regarded the craftsmanship  for which they had paid.  The timespan ranges from the  eleventh century through the golden age of the thirteenth  and fourteenth centuries to the luxurious manuscripts in  existence at the discovery of printing."--p. [4] of cover.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/455079},
}