Horologium Olomoucense around 1130
Completed facsimile
Painting build-up, stage of preparatory drawing and gilding the parchment
Preparation with local tones
Experiments with dying of alum tawed leather with organic dyes
Reconstruction of bookbinding
dying of book cover
Original illumination, Stockholm Royal Library
Illumination of facsimile
This important Benedictine manuscript was probably written in the Olomouc scriptorium associated with the person of bishop Jindřich Zdík. The beautiful full-page illumination not only has the well-known authors, Hildebert and Ewervin, who portrayed themselves within the illumination, but it is also a very interesting message from the life of the time.
As spoils of war from the Swedish troops during The Thirty Years War around 1630, it is now housed in the Royal Library in Stockholm.
It is returning to the Olomouc Museum of Art as a facsimile.
The facsimile is executed as a parchment doublepage inserted into a replica of a historical book binding.