|
Fine Art Facsimile Editions Documentations Facsimile Cassettes |
|
| New Books | |
| Book Art | |
| Encyclopedias / Reprints | |
| History | |
| Literature | |
| History of Art | |
| Music | |
| Art | |
| Non-Books | |
| Remainders | |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
The Model Book of Rein
The oldest preserved template guide book of the Middle Ages
Vienna, Austrian National Library, Cod. Vindob. 507, Monastery of Rein (Syria), 1st half of the 13th century
|
|
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||||
|
|
|
CODICES SELECTI, Vol. LXIV
Further Pictures
|
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
|
Generations of medieval artists patterned their great works on cartoons and sketches compiled in so-called Model Books. The Model Book of Rein, named after the Cistercian abbey at Rein near Graz in Styria where it was made, is probably the finest of all.
Our Model Book is the work of an anonymous artist who, on 13 pages, carefully illustrated scenes of everyday life, created animal depictions, a series of initial alphabets, as well as patterns for floor tiles and glass windows. The codex was produced in the 13th century and the copy in Rein thus constitutes the oldest surviving Model Book of this size in medieval art. The Model Book commences with 12 scenes taken from medieval daily life. The precisely executed genre pictures represent typical farm duties, different arts and crafts, as well as hunting and fishing scenes and activities of monastic life. |
|
|||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||
 |
ADEVA News |
|
|
Exibition in the National Library of the Czech Republic |