Chrysography

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As Chrysographie (Greek. Chrysos golden; graphein write) the technique is called, with the in manuscripts details such as letters or painted objects ( crowns , nimbuses ) with a gold tincture have been designed. In the early Middle Ages, fonts were kept exclusively in gold letters in both Byzantine and Western cultures. These writings are also called Codex Aureus . In the High Middle Ages, the use of gold was reduced and was mostly limited to enlarged initials . This technique was used both in books, usually biblical or liturgical texts, and in splendid copies of documents ( purple certificates ).

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  • Johannes Jahn , Wolfgang Haubenreißer: Dictionary of Art (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 165). 10th, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-520-16510-4 , p. 143.
  • Vera Trost: Gold and silver inks. Technological investigation of occidental chrysography and argyrography from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages. (Phil. Dissertation Würzburg 1983) Wiesbaden 1991.
  • Vera Trost: Chrysography and argyrography in manuscripts and documents. In: Anton von Euw - Peter Schreiner (Ed.): Kaiserin Theophanu. Meeting of the East and West at the turn of the first millennium. Commemorative publication of the Cologne Schnütgen Museum for the 1000th year of death of the Empress , Part 2, Cologne 1991, pp. 335–344
  • Otto Kresten : On the chrysography in the foreign letters of the Byzantine emperors , "Roman Historical Messages" 40 (1998), pp. 139-186.

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