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TRUE OR FALSE: Illuminated manuscripts (the early ones) were made via the printing press.

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FALSE: Illuminated manuscripts are made by hand.

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What are the main color pigments of the Illuminated Manuscript?

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gold, blue, red

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What were the binding mediums of powdery pigments used in IM?

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Honey or earwax
Egg-tempera
Gum-arabica

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What was the most expensive color pigment and what material did it come from?

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Blue; lapis lazuli

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What is the oldest sources from the text of the Aeneid?

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Vergilius Vaticanus (Vatican Virgil)

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What is the oldest surviving illustrated codices on any subject

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Vergilius Vaticanus (Vatican Virgil)

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What design was used in IM?

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Celtic design

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Describe the Celtic design.

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Abstract, complex
Bright pure colors
Geometric linear patterns

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Where was the Celtic design used (aside from IM)?

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monastic scriptoria

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What Book adapted the Celtic design and what Gospel?

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Book of Drurow - Gospel of Mark

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Name one of the most famous surviving illustrated codex books.

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Book of Kells

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How many Gospels are in the Book of Kells?

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Four Gospels

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What codex/book uses gold and silver in their decorations?

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Codex Aureus/Golden Book

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What is the term to refer to the non-representation of living beings?

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Aniconism

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What stopped the spread of the Islam manuscript?

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Ottoman expansion

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Who worked on books in the church (scriptorium)?

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Clergy

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Who wrote the manuscripts?

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Scribes

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What were punctuation marks originally used for?

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Indicate pauses for speakers

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TRUE OR FALSE: During the time of the illuminated manuscripts, there was no finalized and standardized punctuation mark usage.

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TRUE

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Who does the decorative initial

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Illustrator

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What is the term to describe, “Arranging letters that begin with a large capital and progressively smaller letters”

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Diminuendo

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What would be done if there are spaces in lines that are too short?

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Fill with decorative device

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What marks the start of the paragraph?

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Pilcrow

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What is the written commentary accompanying the text found between the pines or arranged as a frame outside the content?

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Gloss

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What is the notation at the end of a book that includes information?
Colophon
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What does the colophon contain?
Scribe Scriptorium Patron of the work Date
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Who is acknowledged as one of the very first attempts at a printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
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What did Gutenberg print?
Vulgate
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Who was Gutenberg's financer, that invested in him twice?
Johann Fust
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What was the result of the design of Gutenberg's printing press in terms of text?
Cutting-edge technology that is a much smaller version that pressed ink on paper using metal typefaces
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Why did Gutenberg want to sell the Vulgate at a high price?
He desired to mimic the quality of an illuminated manuscript
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TRUE OR FALSE: Gutenberg was able to bounce back after being sued by Fust.
FALSE
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Who is Gutenberg's assistant and Fust's son-in-law that became a printing firm?
Schoeffer
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What was the masterpiece that the Fust-Schoeffer printing press sold?
Latin Psalter
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The Latin Psalter was the first book with what?
Printer's trademark Imprint Publication Date Printed Colophon
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How many colors were used in the Latin Psalter?
three colored ink
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What is the other first book printed besides from the Vulgate?
Jikji from Korea
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What is any book, single sheet, or image printed before 1501 in Europe?
Incunabula
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What are words and lines of text bound together as a page?
Forme
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What is the craft of cutting letter punches in steel from which matrices were made from?
Punch cutting
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What do you call the handwritten scripts of the Middle Ages?
Blackletter
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What typeface replaced Gutenberg's textura?
Schwabacher
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What became the standard typeface for publishing?
Fraktur
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What did Gutenberg used for ink?
Boiled listen old colored with lampblack
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What is one of the richest centers in Europe?
Nuremberg
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Who was Germany's most esteemed printer?
Anton Koberger
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What were the typefaces for the body text of the Korberger Bible?
Rotunda - Latin Schwabacher - German Lombardic font - headings and initials
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What language was the Nuremberg Chronicle written in?
Latin
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Who is the writer of the Nuremberg Chronicle?
Hartmann Schedel
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Who owned the only print shop in Venice during the Renaissance period?
Johannes de Spira
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Who established presses in Venice and is given credit for contributing to typesettings and punchcutting?
Nicolas Jenson
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Who established the Aldin Printing Press in Venice?
Aldus Manutius
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What did Manutius print in his printing press?
His own versions of Greek and Roman literature
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What did Manutius revolutionalize?
small-format books proportions between fonts white borders adding page numbers
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Who reused the style of illuminated manuscripts in terms of starting font?
Erhard Ratdolt
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Who is renowned for his woodcut prints, specifically about topics on revelations and doomsday?
Albrecht Durer
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Who applied Da Vinci's proportions of the human body into typefaces?
Albrecht Durer
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Who introduced the apostrophe, accent, and cedilla in the French language?
Geoffroy Tory
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How did Geoffroy Troy create his drawing decors for the Book of Hours?
woodblock printing
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Who wrote the book establishing French grammar?
Champfleury
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Who is the first punch cutter to work independently of printing firms?
Claude Garamond
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How was Gothic fonts eliminated in Europe ( besides Germany)?
Garamond established his foundry.
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Describe the design of the Rococo Period.
S and C curves with nature inspirations Very flamboyant design
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What is the Romain du Roi?
It increased contrast between thick and thin strokes with sharper horizontal serifs, balancing each letterform.
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Who is in charge of the standardization and proportions for type?
Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune
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How does engraving work?
Drawing was made with a graver as a drawing tool, smooth copperplate as substrate.
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Who is the Universal Penman?
George Bickham the Elder
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Who created the 1737 Opera Horatii using copperplate engraving technique?
John Pine
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What ended the Rococo Period?
French Revolution: masses did not resonate with the style
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What was the most powerful force during the Industrial Period?
Capitalism
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Who was the inventor of the steam-powered engine?
James Watt
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What did the social shift include?
Overpopulation Depression Economic and financial failures Child labor
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What is the font of the Declaration of Independence?
Caslon
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How did the Egyptian typefaces come to be?
People were getting stuff from Egypt and putting them in European museums.
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What is the first sans-serif in Latin letters?
Caslon Egyptian
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What are the characteristics of transitional fonts?
Almost vertical serifs Almost vertical stress in lowercase Greater contrast in vertical strokes
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What do you call those who distribute and sell their own fonts?
Type Foundries
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Who created the Didone typeface?
Firmin Didot
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Describe the Didone typeface.
Extreme contrats between thick and thin strokes, very thin serifs, vertical axis for bowls of lowercase letters
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What were fat fonts used for?
Poster design
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What kind of poster was used to display typefaces for circuses, troops, railways, etc.?
Wood type poster
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Who put up the Fann Street Foundry?
Robert Thorn and Vincent Figgins
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Describe the typeface used by the Fann Street Foundry.
Extreme differences between stems and diagonal strokes from serifs which were practically hairline
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What font has a square but bracketed serif that's super low contrast?
Clarendon
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What chemical process includes an image on a stone plate by using pen/crayon/pencil?
Lithography
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Who invented Lithography?
Alois Senefelder
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Original purpose of lithography
Make copies of musical notations
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Why is Louis Prang the Father of the American Christimas Card?
Mass-produced greeting cards with illustrations
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This process gave the capability to print multicolored images and is used in packaging design.
Chromolitography
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Who patented chromolitography?
Godfroy Engelmann
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What did Mo Zi discover in photography?
Principles of optics Camera obscura Pinhole camera
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Who was the first person who attempted to take a real photograph?
Thomas Wedgewood
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How did Thomas Wedgewood capture an image?
Camera obscura using a light sensitive substance
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What was the pieceof Joseph Nicephor Niépce that was made by 8 hours of exposure to bright sunlight?
View from the Window at le Gras
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Who did the first permanent photo etching?
Joseph Nicephor Niépce
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Who discovered to make a photo permanent and coined the term photography?
John Herschel
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What was the fixer that Herschel discover for photos?
sodium thiosulfate
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Who invented the Daguerreotype?
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
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Describe the Daguerreotype.
Meter-wide box Sit in for hours
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What did William Fox Talbot discover in photography?
Using silver nitrite
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Who invented the Kodak camera?
Gorge Eastman
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What did Eastman use instead of photographic plates?
Film system
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What was photography in printing initially used for?
Reference for illustrators to capture events.
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What did the printing technology of halftone use?
Woodcuts: number of dots and spaces create illusions of depth, saturation, hues

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