Guided tour: Manuscripts manufacturing

Name: Guided tour: Manuscripts manufacturing
Start: 2021-09-19T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Scriptorial d'Avranches - Musée des manuscrits du Mont-Saint-Michel

Discover the secrets of making a codex, from parchment to binding, through the art of writing and illumination, to better admire the manuscripts of the Treasury Room.

Sunday 19 September 2021, 15:00, 17:00Passed

Conditions

Reservation recommended (limited gauge). Access on presentation of the sanitary pass.

Registration

02 33 79 57 00 accueil-musee@avranches.fr

Ville d'Avranches

The weekend of September 18 and 19 corresponds to the last days of exhibition of manuscripts studied by the Centre for Research on Conservation (CNRS) as part of the EMMA (Material Study of Ancient Manuscripts of Mont Saint-Michel) research program. Last chance to learn a little more about the materials used by the copyist monks to make their remarkable illuminations and writing pages!

About the location

Scriptorial d'Avranches - Musée des manuscrits du Mont-Saint-Michel

Place d'Estouteville, 50300 Avranches

Manche
Normandie

Local museum, Scriptorial presents archaeological collections, sculptor, silver, paintings(paints) in connection with the history(story) of Avranches and of the Mont-Saint-Michel. The permanent exhibition emphasises manufacturing and contents of the medieval manuscripts of the abbey of the Mont-Saint-Michel; the originals(eccentrics) are presented in the treasure room.