The vast array of image types and styles of spatial organization reveal instead the inventive legacy of an artistic period in which the foundations not only of medieval but future Western art forms take root. This diversity of artistic output documents more than a renewal of classical and late Antique pictorial precedents. Carolingian manuscript illuminations reveal alternatively their emphasis upon a return to classical or Italo-Byzantine illusionism in certain figures and spaces, the decorative refinement of their interlace, the masterful pursuit of the decorative and narrative potential of the historiated initial, and an extensive experimental range of calligraphic or painterly pictorial styles. Leo III also gave his imprimatur to the renovatio underway throughout the Frankish lands. When Pope Leo III (795–816) universally acknowledged the Frankish king from north of the Alps as the emperor of the Romans, not only did Leo recognize and legitimize the interdependence of sacred and secular authority mutually shared by the two leaders. Amy Rohmiller is the associate University archivist in University Archives and Special Collections.Away from home during his fourth journey to Rome and in celebration of Christmas Day at the end of the year 800, Charlemagne made his way to Old St. You can view pictures of the Beissel Collection and the Golden Legend during treatment, with Moeller’s descriptions of the process, in the photo gallery below and make an appointment to view the newly conserved items. Moeller’s treatments included removing them from their old housings cleaning the fragments removing adhesive residues and paper remnants creating a window mat for each piece mounting each leaf on a larger sheet of Mylar so that users can turn the page over without touching it and rehousing all the matted pieces in archival boxes. Professional conservator Laura Moeller, who specializes in treating works on paper, created new housing that both keeps them safe and allows them to be used by students and researchers. Prior to their conservation, these pieces were housed in acidic mats with fragile adhesives that made it hard to see both sides of the leaf. Victor Emanuel, a 1915 UD alumnus and the principal donor for UD’s first library building, Albert Emanuel Hall, donated the leaf to the university in 1929 shortly after the building was dedicated. Gothart, a medieval German Benedictine monk and bishop. UD’s manuscript leaf is from 1488 and contains a biography of St. The 61st item is from the Golden Legend, an influential collection on the lives of saints. Beissel, S.J., a historian of the medieval period and a Marian theologian, assembled the collection, which UD acquired in 1959. (As defined by Merriam-Webster, paleography is “the study of ancient or antiquated writings and inscriptions the deciphering and interpretation of historical writing systems and manuscripts.”) Father Stephen J. Some of the leaves also have illuminations and drawings. Sixty of the items make up the Beissel Collection, a paleography teaching collection that represents nearly every major known script from 800 through 1700. Thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), awarded by the State Library of Ohio, along with funding from the Father Roesch Library Collections Endowment, 61 medieval manuscript leaves are now stored in new, custom-made archival housings that will allow these items to be used and preserved for a long time to come. University of Dayton Archives and Special Collections (UASC) recently received two of its treasures back from almost a year of treatment in a conservation lab.
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