In class today we talked about illuminated manuscripts. Fancy manuscripts were made to catch peoples eye in hope that they would convert to Christianity. The manuscripts were created in the scriptorium by the scrittori, copisti, and the illuminator. The scrittori was the editor and the art director, he was educated in both Greek and Latin. The copisti was the production letterer and the illuminator was the illustrator. We also talked about typographic printing and the affects it had on society. The Phaistos Disk is the earliest found evidence of an alphabet and printing, same symbols are exactly the same as if they had been stamped. The chinese started printing on paper when they ran out of silver. The chinese never caught on to moveable type because they had too many characters. We talked about Gutenberg's 42 line Bible, how he was sued, and his other achievements that impacted printing.
I was fascinated by the way Andrew Lloyd Goodman had never seen some of the illustrations we looked at but he was able to tell us about the meaning just by knowing specific symbols and what they symbolize.
We talked about how the cheese and wine press inspired Gutenberg to create moveable type, what is a cheese and wine press?
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