Secret histories of illuminated manuscripts: the MINIARE project

An innovative project at the University of Cambridge will uncover some of the hidden histories of illuminated manuscripts, thanks to the application of techniques more commonly found in scientific laboratories. The MINIARE project will help conservators repair priceless works of art and provide new insights into the cultural, social and economic circumstances of their production. And, crucially for objects of such rarity and fragility, none of the techniques involves touching the manuscripts or removing samples.
www.miniare.org
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[@MrTorleon]

Thank you for a fascinating and ' illuminating ' short documentary. As an illustrator and palaeographer, I worked on restoration/conservation of manuscripts back in the late 1960`s, through the 1970`s. and have found it astonishing and wonderful, in the digital age, just how much more information can now be accessed to identify pigments, techniques and possible or probable artists involved. so much more than was available back then. Top shelf production, wonderful :)

[@spiritofzen7022]

Wow 😮 my dream job being curator of these beautiful books

[@Methuselem]

What a lovely, interesting and civilised occupation it must be to study these books. Nobody on the docks wants to talk about illuminated manuscripts...would that I had done better in school.

[@gavinreid8351]

Illuminated manuscripts. One of the few art works that avoided protestant iconoclasts attention.

[@gluselick]

I would like know more about illumination tecniques

[@CoxJoxSox]

Are students allowed to photograph these? I'm an Oxford alum and cellphones weren't available when I was there so I'm curious.

[@advmotorrad]

Is there any course or degree of this beutiful art please guide me.. i would like to get admution in that... i searched alot all i finde in spanish or french language ... is there any in english?

[@nunnoffyubehznass2150]

I love this

[@kabirumyball7624]

interested I love that

[@KronicShade]

2:40 .. the lady says that using egg yoke as a binder is more typical for panel painters then illuminators, so what did illuminators typically use for a binder in their paints? I would never assume to know more about illuminated manuscripts then a research associate at the department of manuscripts lol but in my humble, non-academic internet research of medieval manuscripts over the years, I only ever heard of egg yoke used for paint binders.

[@amosmaclin4665]

Those books mean a lot to some of us some of us can read manuscript easy God gifted us well

[@franceslockhart4933]

People of the book mentioned: Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam. Judaism.....? I find Uni art text books commonly ommit Judaism whilst striving to include as many cultures as possible.