PugJesusManuscript page showing troops being transported by wagon, Germany/Holy Roman Empire, ~1500 AD
JohnnyEnzymeThat’s incredible.
Would monks (or whoever) actually try to copy something like that, in producing more editions?
There would be specialists who did the artwork, specifically, at this point in history. I think they had a form of tracing using a ‘master drawing’, but I only vaguely remember my art history classes.
I couldn’t find much about this specific one, but decided to throw the reproduction issue out to GPT5.2, FWIW.
https://chatgpt.com/share/699fe012-a948-800b-a97f-949bd5d92650
Grids and lightboxes are some classic art reproduction methods, so that makes a lot of sense. “Pricking and pouncing” seem to check out with some searching, and evidently they also used “pouncing wheels” to facilitate that, also classically used in transferring patterns in sewing.
This all kind of interests me particularly, as a part-time artist.
