This was made to accompany a public talk I gave in 2004. It's very ugly in my opinion, but someone might be able to use the infor in a classrom.

1. The Decorated Page Illuminated Manuscripts:

2. Egyptian Origins 1570 BC 0

4. The Papyrus of Ani Dead Sea Scrolls

5. papyrus Before Paper: Early Materials papyrus vellum/parchment

6. Before paper: The Process of Bookmaking

8. Materials & Techniques: Making Pigment azurite lapis lazuli woad indigo BLUE GREEN malachite saffron orpiment yellow ochre saffron YELLOW

9. calcite Materials & Techniques: Making Pigment RED iron BROWN WHITE lead lime ash cochineal

10. Materials & Techniques: Egg Glair and Gold Leafing

11. Materials & Techniques: Manuscript Components carpet page decorated initial historiated initial miniature & marginalia drollery & grotesques

12. Classical, Early Christian & Byzantine Manuscripts Copies of Virgil and Homer’s Iliad Rossano Gospels & De Materia Medica Vienna Dioscorides

13. Irish & English Manuscripts Manuscripts: The Book of Kells Carolingian Style

14. Irish & English Manuscripts: The Lindisfarne Gospels

15. Romanesque Manuscripts: The Winchester Bible

16. Gothic Manuscripts: Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry February October

17. Arabic & Persian Manuscripts page from Kalilah & Dimnah Pages from the Koran

18. Indian & Asian Manuscripts The Story of Ying Ying Painted handscroll Prayerbook Leaf From Bhagavad Gita. Prayerbook Leaf From Bhagavad Gita.