chrysography

chrysography
/kri sog"reuh fee/, n.
1. the art of writing in ink made of powdered gold suspended in a small amount of glair or gum.
2. the gold writing produced by this art.
[1850-55; < Gk chrysographía. See CHRYSO-, -GRAPHY]

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 in calligraphy, the art of writing in letters of gold or a piece of calligraphic work so set off. Chrysography perhaps reached its highest perfection in the West during the Middle Ages under the impetus of the 8th- and 9th-century Carolingian literary renaissance, when a number of splendid manuscripts known as the Golden Gospels were produced. Most famous among these masterpieces is the Godescalc Gospels, written between 781 and 783, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

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