Lucca manuscript
The Lucca manuscript is an art-technological treatise from the seventh or eighth century AD. It is also entitled Compositiones variae or Compositiones ad tingenda musiva .
It is named after its central Italian place of origin, Lucca , and is located in the chapter library in Lucca under the name Codex Lucensis 490. The format is 19.5 cm × 27 cm. The treatise is written in bad Latin : “Everything is written in a Latin that does great things in terms of barbarism and darkness”. The text is peppered with Greek expressions containing Egyptian tradition and often almost literal repetition of the Leyden papyrus X . It deals with the dyeing and gilding of glass, hides, wood and bone and the manufacture of paints and metal processing.
Text output
- MURATORI, LA, ed. Compositiones ad tingenda musiva, pelles, et alia, ad deaurandum ferrum, ad mineralia, ad chrysographiam, ad glutina quaedam conficienda, aliaque artium documenta, ante annos nongentos scripta; in: De artibus Italicorum post inclinationem Romani Imperii; in: Antiquitates Italicae Medii Aevi. II. ... Milano 1739. First printing.
- BURNAM, John M. A classical technology edited from Codex Lucensis 490. Boston 1920.
- JOHNSON, Rozelle Parker. Compositiones Variae. From codex 490, Biblioteca Capitolare, Lucca, Italy. An introductory study. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1939.
literature
- Hjalmar Hedfors, Compositiones ad tingenda musiva. Edited, translated and explained philologically. Upsala 1932. Includes a German translation and comments on the text.
- Vera Trost: Gold and silver inks. Technological studies of occidental chrysography and argyrography from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages . Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-447-02902-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Consolation 1991 p. 40.