liturgical book

Examples of liturgical book in the following topics:

• Ottonian Illustrated Books in the Early European Middle Ages

  • The most richly illuminated manuscripts were used for display and most likely to be liturgical books, including psalters, gospel books, and huge illuminated complete Bibles.
  • These lavish manuscripts sometimes include a dedication portrait commemorating the book's creation, in which the patron is usually depicted presenting the book to the saint of choice.
  • Illuminated manuscripts were enclosed in ornate metal book covers decorated with gems and ivory carvings.
  • It became famous for its style of gospel illustration in liturgical books.
  • Describe the purpose and style of illustrated books in the Ottonian Renaissance.

• Illuminated Manuscripts

  • The types of books that were most often heavily and richly illuminated, sometimes known as a "display book," varied between periods.
  • In the first millennium, Gospel Books were often illuminated.
  • Finally, the Book of Hours, commonly the personal devotional book of a wealthy layperson, was often richly illuminated in the Gothic period .
  • Other books, both liturgical and not, continued to be illuminated at all periods.
  • The book of hours, a devotional book popular in the later Middle Ages, is the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.

• Objects of Worship in the Middle Byzantine Empire

  • Christ sits on an elaborate throne as the Pantokrator, with a book of Gospels in one arm and his hand gesturing in a motion of blessing.
  • A psalter is a book containing the Book of Psalms and other liturgical material such as calendars.

• Cistercian Architecture

  • Cistercian churches were most often built on a cruciform layout, with a short presbytery to meet the liturgical needs of the brethren, small chapels in the transepts for private prayer, and an aisle-edged nave that was divided roughly in the middle by a screen to separate the monks from the lay brothers.
  • The "architecture of light" of Acey Abbey represents the pure style of Cistercian architecture, intended for the utilitarian purposes of liturgical celebration.A

• Block Books

  • Around 1450, small woodcut books called "block books" or "xylographica" came into prominence and were reproduced in large numbers.
  • Block books were short books consisting of up to 50 leaves block-printed with woodcuts carved to include both text and imagery.
  • It is widely believed that block books existed as a cheaper alternative to the movable-type printed book, which was in use but still very expensive.
  • Block books are considered incunabula (or "incunable"), a term referring to a book, pamphlet, or broadside printed before the year 1501 in Europe.
  • Polychromatic block books were produced in addition to the monochromatic ones.

• Architecture in the Early Byzantine Empire

  • At the western entrance side and eastern liturgical side are arched openings extended by half domes of identical diameter to the central dome, carried on smaller semi-domed exedras.

• The Book of the Dead

  • The original Egyptian name is translated as "Book of Coming Forth by Day," or "Book of Emerging Forth into the Light."
  • Despite the word "book" in the common title, the Book of the Dead was actually printed on scrolls, as opposed to bound texts.
  • The New Kingdom saw the Book of the Dead develop and spread further.
  • There was no single Book of the Dead, and works tended to vary widely.
  • Describe what the Book of the Dead was and explain its use in Ancient Egypt

• Anglo-Saxon and Irish Art

  • After the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in the seventh century, the fusion of Germanic Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and Early Christian techniques created the Hiberno-Saxon style (or Insular art) in the form of sculpted crosses and liturgical metalwork.

• Islamic Book Painting

  • Book painting in the late medieval Islamic world reached its height in Persia, Syria, Iraq, and the Ottoman Empire.
  • Islamic book painting witnessed its first golden age in the 13th century, mostly within Syria and Iraq.
  • Chinese influences in Islamic book painting included the early adoption of the vertical format natural to a book.
  • The largest commissions of illustrated books were usually classics of Persian poetry, such as the Shahnameh.
  • These books contain numerous illustrations and exhibit a strong Safavid influence, perhaps inspired by books captured in the course of the Ottoman-Safavid wars of the 16th century.

• Romanesque Illustrated Books

  • Many books of worship produced during the Romanesque period were characterized by illuminated manuscript.
  • The typical focii of Romanesque illumination and illustrated books were the Bible, where each book could be prefaced by a large historiated initial, and the Psalter, where major initials were similarly illuminated.
  • In all, 48 of the major historiated initials that begin each book stand complete.
  • Each book of the Bible and the major sections of Psalms are introduced by a large historiated initial in colors and gold, with the exception of the books of Deuteronomy, Isaiah, and Haggai.
  • Alban's Psalter is widely considered to be one of the most important examples of English Romanesque book production.