How To Make Illuminated Manuscripts Using Traditional Techniques | History In The Making

Illuminated manuscripts are highly decorated books that helped to define our civilization. Check it out how to makes them using traditional techniques. Also, learn how to make artisanal cheese from scratch!
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[@KristinkaAranova]

How tf did it go from illuminated manuscripts to cheese lol

[@jeremywarren7424]

Right? I mean, it was pretty interesting, just unexpected

[@zedtag5186]

We're learning medieval history :)

[@malkaklein5390]

Lol so disappointed

[@spiritus1512]

The two are similar in beauty and equal in value

[@mrgreene3290]

Looks like there are breaks in the video time thread, which maybe when a commercial break occurred in the program airing on TV. We don't see the commercials, so it just passes through the break from the program on illuminated books direct to the cheese process.

[@ChristopherPayneMUA]

Came for illuminated manuscripts, got some bonus cheese!

[@rmcdaniel423]

I've had dinner with Mr. Asplund. A large group gathering here in the U.S., and he joined my table by sheer luck. A very humble and interesting man. So amazing to see this video featuring him and his very detailed work on a UK production! Will hopefully cross paths with him again!

[@A.R.C.77]

I bet his house must smell amazing

[@Stormin_Norman_1066]

Lol Most of the time, it’s only bad if he’s letting something ferment in the garage...

[@A.R.C.77]

@@Stormin_Norman_1066 i hope the garage is a few hundred metres away

[@Stormin_Norman_1066]

@@A.R.C.77 Alas- it is attached and cramped from the insane amount of projects he has in there... lol But his wife manages to keep the place smelling rather nice with her regular baking of breads and pastries.

[@e.d.6832]

most people who have dogs have houses which smell bad

[@xxxdieselyyy2]

I own a wet blue tanning unit. It smells like horse ass and 1000 year unflushed toilet.

[@922Terry]

Can’t LOVE this tutorial enough!!!! Genius!!!!❤️

[@heidikimball1228]

Amazing! I appreciate Randy's beautiful work as I research this art form.

[@Korradoar]

lol. that cheese came out of nowhere... lol!

[@davelester1985]

This is something i have been wanting to know about. THANKS: Now to find out where to buy some, if possible.

[@Rydonittelo]

I bought a beautiful modern handmade manuscript from a scribe/graphic designer in Haifa. It's a single parchment of the first chapter of the Gospel of John in original Greek. It is a gorgeous peace of art👍🏻

[@averywho6430]

All I could think about was “Moisturise me” from Doctor Who

[@reynalarouge7808]

🤣

[@VamosViverFora]

Cassandra, the last human alive.

[@tlclark9260]

Beautiful and fascinating! Incredibly useful for the monks I'm currently writing - thank you. Also, yay bonus cheese.

[@ZhebithArasyid-jb7lb]

AMAZING SKILL

[@marycatherinedrake1213]

This video is amazing! I wish it had captions so my students with hearing loss could enjoy it too!

[@gubgub3275]

Why? Who cares

[@qrae9033]

Ohhh... stop virtue signaling! not in fashion any more

[@padraigin2929]

You're right, even auto-generated would be better than nothing.

[@sugarpansies]

@@qrae9033how is this virtue signalling LMFAOOO 😭😭 she wants her real deaf students to be able to watch the video in class too

[@toffeefeathers]

This man is my hero and everything I want to be as an artist

[@towednack]

I want to make things like the ones he does too! I love this type of art so much

[@THE_MR_MAN]

why is there just a cheese bonus at the end because it made me go CRAZY!

[@macgriannad168]

Illuminated manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts, illuminated manuscripts, illuminated manu-CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE

[@fififinance7469]

Thanks for sharing!😀

[@matthewgellar1442]

How did the designs go from the wax tablet to the thin parchment? Are the etchings inked or something?

[@leahe1512]

They lay thin parchment over the wax and pin prick the design. They lay this pin pricked parchment over the book parchment and sprinkle soot and then remove the thin parchment and join up the dots. They remove the soot dust with wadded up bread.

[@randyasplund3578]

@@leahe1512 Actually, you wouldn't lay tracing parchment over the wax drawing. You'd get wax on it, and you would not want to transfer that because it would ruin the final parchment. The wax version is to work out the design. When you have it, you draw with a lead point on parchment scrap (or after the later 14th c. you might use paper if you could get it), and prick through that version. Then dust color through it onto the page. Often, the finer work was just drawn straight onto the page in lead. After the lines were finalized in ink, the lead was erased with bread. -Randy

[@auntijen3781]

Was the labor for manuscripts delegated out to different workers in an assembly line? Or did the master color artist ALSO have to be a master binder, & script writer & hide scraper?

[@theneighbourhoodnimrod2379]

There was a group that did different things sometimes there would be over 10 scribes to write a larger manuscript

[@KristinkaAranova]

No, usually multiple scribes would work on a manuscript and different artists and Illuminators would decorate it

[@Killzoneguy117]

In Iran, illuminated manuscripts were done in an assembly line manner. Each station would be responsible for one thing. For example, one guy would be responsible for painting birds, another guy for painting clouds, another guy for painting faces, etc. Then you would have one guy who would write, one guy who would bind the book.

[@marciasouthwick9748]

Magical!

[@spiritus1512]

As others mentioned, yes, work was split up amongst many people. And pages were often not done in the order they would appear in a book, we have to remember the Middle Ages were not a time when we lost all sense haha

[@shielatv22]

Milk scene (me): what a beautiful place. 💚💚💚

[@nijinokanata111]

Super cool calligraphy

[@fl0atpvnk]

1:20 - Lady Cassandra

[@jrjubach]

The music in this is so insane.

[@elaineburch5397]

Beautiful books

[@konradp5817]

❤🇦🇱

[@LK21502]

1:21 "Moisturize me"

[@kaiblank3407]

lmao glad im not the only one XD

[@joaquinportocarero5619]

Check my book tour here, My style is little different, but illuminated none the less! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGLTq417qp2mm6s

[@nightangel972000]

How did the parchment maker know when the parchment had reached the ideal thickness/thinness? Did they judge by its translucency?

[@themasquerader101]

Here because im going to be making a comic book in the style of an illuminated manuscript. Hopefully it works out

[@ecthelion1735]

Unexpected cheesewheels

[@cynk956]

I am wondering why you don't use a monk grasp like original monks used to write manuscripts as it was so less stressful on the hand? Beautiful art, though. Thank you.

[@3riccarlson]

It’s the belt for me

[@christophercasey6681]

Gotta be thorough, even if you leave one abstract mole, they'll know it's your spouse's flesh.

[@frogpalpeeper4249]

Wow Chris! You're a party guy!

[@randidaeger157]

Need Closed Captioning! Please!

[@gefehede7783]

So paper is really just uncooked pork rinds. I thought paper was made of wood.... Oh I gotchu, you get the skin from the animals wood. Interesting.

[@rodrigosantoscosta9017]

this is parchment made of animal skin paper is made of trees

[@gefehede7783]

@@rodrigosantoscosta9017 Parchment and paper aren't the same thing? Mind blown.

[@xxxdieselyyy2]

How much did an a5 sheet cost in mediaeval era I wonder?! Buying a journal was prolly like buying a debeers jewels today. 🙄

[@yeager1957]

The actual parchment would be a bit more than a lambs hide. Keep in mind you didn’t slaughter animals for their leather, you used it after you slaughtered them for food. More expensive than today’s paper but not impossible

[@xxxdieselyyy2]

@@yeager1957 the leather hide would have to compete for use in shoes, saddles and a whole bunch of other items.

[@nothingbutart7473]

@@xxxdieselyyy2 I would imagine only the church, way upper class, and royals had access to books/manuscripts made out of this paper. But you also got to remember that more regular paper still existed, that wouldn’t be too expensive.

[@randyasplund3578]

The question needs to be constrained to consider the time and place. In the earliest period when you could get papyrus, it was comparatively cheap, but did not last well and it had to be imported, so it would be more expensive in the north. When there was only parchment, it mattered where it came from because in the southern regions goat was more common, and in the north, calf and sheep was more common. They required different farming, and the other uses for those animals would impact price. When paper came to Europe in the later Middle Ages, journal stationary became cheap, but that was gradual and access was dependent upon how many production shops there were and where they were. The cost of parchment at any particular place and time has to be understood in the context of a very different economy of that particular time and place compared to today. So there is no generic answer. You'd have to start by considering what portion of someone's annual earnings might be, but you can't even compare that fairly to today because the earnings of a given "career" in the "Middle Ages" (which itself is a loosely defined period)might be totally different than a corresponding occupation today. The best answer would be "parchment cost more than a peasant would be able to afford, would be a significant expense for a commercial business, and books with little or no decoration beyond colored initials and plain covers would only be bought by people of substantial economic means. The fancy books would be worth more than a very nice house today. The ones made in monasteries were funded by the wealth taken in by the church and the labor was self-explanatory (except when the church grew so fast that they had to engage lay workers to keep up with the demand for new books to go to new monasteries).

[@wmoon3985]

Can anyone upload the Englis subtitles？😢plz

[@habibaurmee7727]

Illiterate

[@Evy_Rin]

Hi

[@susanmitchell4744]

Where is the video?

[@liberationpocket6435]

"Making Leather Out of My Buddy's Foreskin"

[@user-sx4nm9cg1h]

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[@sklallamghost9188]

Not every culture made cheese. My people didn't even have cows or goats. They came to America with colonizers.

[@adamzaidi1748]

How pitiful.

[@zhubacca]

So they weren't a pastoral people. Making the 'every pastoral society has created cheese' statement irrelevant.

[@ashtonmendonca1233]

CHEEEEEESEEEEE

[@_Meandco_]

from paper to cheese

[@jasonmichael3234]

👁👄👁 “MOISTURIZE ME!”

[@fpvillegas9084]

So that's why illuminated manuscripts are horrendously expensive. 🕵‍♂😮

[@brizness]

Illuminating work, but take note: things begin to get cheesy halfway through this video.

[@abraman3033]

Cheese jumpscare

[@marthamryglod291]

Ancient meathod of birth control manufacturing

[@Dharmshortsoffical]

🇮🇳😎

[@Evy_Rin]

Yay I’m first

[@_.F0X._]

So each page was made of animal hides, thats so laborious

[@ohtcobidan]

He stretches out the goat skin, but never uses it. Instead, he cuts sheets of paper from stock that he probably purchased at a store. Otherwise, I liked the first half of the video. I did not come for the cheese making segment.

[@922Terry]

🤣 enjoy the surprise

[@randyasplund3578]

Actually, no. First, I use parchment almost exclusively, and rarely paper. I do use parchment that I make, but not always. There just isn't time to make that every time. This show was shot in one day. All the steps you see were prepared ahead, so no, the lamb wasn't used for the pages you see me working on because it wasn't ready yet. I did finish this lamb skin and it came out about as thick as 24lb. paper. It will be used to make a book which I am currently planning out.

[@ericmcginnis9413]

This process made reading for the upper class only! At least within the areas in which this practice was practiced! Much cheaper methods used elsewhere!

[@C4LV1N1000]

Your point?

[@gaIexy]

whats with the addition of talking about cheese at the end? i really would have liked to have seen more of the finished illuminated manuscript instead. it ended so abruptly.

[@tuleenalzughaibi5277]

2nd

[@tuleenalzughaibi5277]

And first like 😜🥰

[@viktoraggerholm5102]

I almost threw up just watching that last part

[@comradeamerican4393]

This has 666 likes 😳....

[@safedavid2666]

First talk about book now talk CHEESE

[@GoranAkuto]

But....but cheese had nothing to do with making the manuscripts at all...and I watched all that cheese to see why it was there at the end....why didn't you just edit that out? Lol?! I feel we got baited and trolled just for more view time. Gotta say though I respect this trick more than click baits.

[@dawitketema4150]

ብራና

[@AlexandraZe]

Am I the only one who finds those moldy cheeses terribly disgusting? Lol. How did we even get to serve something like that at our dinner tables? It just makes no sense to me, but to each their own, I guess.

[@gfd7469]

Cheese is also good for storing excess plaque in your arteries!👏...👏...👏

[@harshitbalaji1019]

Shame on those who burnt libraries in Alexandria and Nalanda .

[@goopy2585]

I'll just use photoshop, thanks

[@berserk1437]

Seems like cheating since he's able to use modern metal tools and sources

[@nashvillain171]

At his website, Randy feels the need to unnecessarily announce his disagreement with the politics of Rush Limbaugh's newsletter after doing a number of illuminated letters for said newsletter. I couldn't find any similar disclaimers on other commissions he took. It's a crazy world. 🤪

[@longiusaescius2537]

@Nashvillian britbongs are totally buck broken

[@susanmitchell4744]

Why are the people doing this all Yanks?