First Skin Your Sheep. An Exploration of The Practicalities Manuscript Production

Professor Joyce Hill

The artistic beauty of medieval manuscripts still delights  us today. We admire the intricacy, the vibrant colours, the reflective gold, and the calligraphy of the text. But do we often stop and think about how they created the colours, applied the gold, made the ink, and -at an earlier stage in the preparation - created the parchment writing surfaces from the skin of a calf or young sheep? These are the questions that Professor Hill will be answering in her illustrated talk.