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llumination Questions
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/pharos/images/swf/manuscript/manuscript_5a.swf
Use the above link to answer the questions below (if you haven’t gone there already)

Write with complete sentences using the question in the answer.

1. What were medieval manuscripts written upon?

2.  What was it soaked in?

3. What scraped the hide?

4. How did the illuminator make the parchment receptive to ink and paint?

5. How did the illuminator make sure he wrote in straight lines?

6. What was the quill made from?

7. What is a rubric?

8. What was the penknife used for?

9. How did they make the ink?

10. What was used to support the gold leaf?

11. How did they bind the paint pigments together?

12. How did they put the book together?

13. What were the book covers made from?