farfel_n05_155_396

Types of MSS - liturgical , devotional , secular.

1st sketched the design in lead point
next used gesso or a resin-like gum to affix gold
leaf.
gold applied before the rest of the design was painted
- paler shades painted first :

preeperation for writing on parchment.
1) rub - pumice to raise a nap on the surface.
2) dusted - poumce (chalky powder) to make
receptive to ink & colors - mercuric sulfide used
for vermillon red.
gathering - 4 cut sheets folded in half to form
8 leaves or sixteen pages.
pen - goose quill
ink - (1) gallnuts (swelling on oaks) provided
or tannic acid plus iron salt
(2) carbon in liquid medium ("lamp black")

Catholicon 3 impressions 1460, - 1469, - 1472-3
- defined by paper stocks - {Bull'shead
{ Galliziani
{ mixed tower & crown
The oldest work of Arabic prose which regarde as a
model of style is a translation from the Pahlavi (Middle Persian)
of the Sanskrit work Panchatantha or The Fables of
Bidpai , by Ruzbih, a new convert from Zoroastrianism
who took the name Abdullah ibn al-Musqaffa.

- medieval Islamic Maghrib - "West"- meaning Spain
& North Africa. vs East Islam.
- the turn of the 16th C saw the rise of 4 great new
Islamic empires : the Ottoman, the Safavid, the Uzbek,
and the Mughal.