Illuminated manuscript
An illuminated manuscript is a work of Illumination contains, in contrast to a plain text signature figurative images. It is irrelevant whether these refer to the text as illustrations or are independent of it. The umbrella term is the illuminated manuscript, which, in addition to the illuminated manuscripts, also denotes those with non-figurative decorations, such as those dominated by Byzantine book illumination during the picture dispute or, because of a ban on images, all of Islamic book illumination . Especially with richly decorated initials , the transition from purely ornamental to figurative painting is fluid.
Illuminated manuscripts have been made since ancient times. However, it is a development of the late Middle Ages in particular that illuminating in magnificent manuscripts begins to outstrip the text in importance, and especially in the 15th century the “profane hunger for images ” is satisfied by richly illustrated house books and picture chronicles . In the area of pragmatic writing (in the sense of Hagen Keller , 1992), illustrations became more popular during this time, but with the triumph of the printing press in the 16th century , the pragmatic manuscripts of the late Middle Ages were largely again illustrated by printed books, illustrated with engravings and woodcuts , replaced.
literature
- Commission for German Literature of the Middle Ages of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Catalog of the German-language illustrated manuscripts of the Middle Ages ; started by Hella Frühmorgen-Voss. Continued by Norbert H. Ott together with Ulrike Bodemann, Verlag CH Beck , Munich 1991 ff. (currently 7 volumes).
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Pfaff : illustrated chronicles. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 1, 2004 , accessed June 6, 2019 .