The text is from the Office of the Dead, the psalms and prayers for relatives and friends who were suffering in purgatory, Psalms 5-7. The shift away from this oral tradition is manifested in this folio, which includes colored dots and marks to help the reader follow the text properly. 12th-century painters - The Martyrdom of St Lawrence - WGA15841.jpg 700 × 1,049 161 KB. The following 85 files are in this category, out of 85 total. The numbering of leaves, as opposed to pages, is termed foliation and is commonly found in manuscripts. Media in category 'Medieval manuscripts from Koninklijke Bibliotheek'. This exquisitely crafted vellum leaf is highlighted by illuminated capitals painted in red, blue and liquid gold. The front and back of a folio are referred to as the RECTO and VERSO, respectively. These printers tried to make their books of hours appear as similar to the manuscript books as possible, even going so far as to mimic the red lines scribes used to keep their text uniform. Illuminated manuscript books of hours were costly to make, and early printers realized the commercial value in printing larger quantities of illustrated books of hours at a lower cost. This leaf is from the transitional period when the new technology of printing with movable type was combined with the more labor intensive methods of hand painting. This leaf is from a Book of Hours printed on vellum by Gilles Hardouin for Germain Hardouin librayre demourant entre les deux portes du Palays en l’enseigne Saincte Marguerite (bookseller living between the two gates of the Palace at the sign of Saint Marguerite) of Paris.
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