From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V1 #28 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Monday, February 2 1998 Volume 01 : Number 028 In this issue: [scribes]: Free Heraldry [scribes]: Just siigned on! Re: [scribes]: Just signed on! Re: [scribes]: looking for Brause nibs Re: [scribes]: Hagiography ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 19:40:55 -0500 From: Margaret Richardson Subject: [scribes]: Free Heraldry I have been reading with interest the comments people have been making about real scrolls, preprints, and promissories. One person brought this point up in passing, but I think it is a very significant problem and needs to be brought up again, and possibly incite some activism in scribes, heralds and SCA'ers in general. For years in An Tir, no one would get a "real" scroll unless they had their names and arms registered. I happen to be in favor of this--who wants to spend hours of labor on a scroll with blanks all through it? I worked very hard on a court Baronial scroll for someone that has been in the SCA for many years and has never been able to get his arms passed. I did it anyway as a favor to several people, but it is very suboptimal with a large blank shield and a large blank for the blazon. That was about 4 years ago--I still don't think the person has their device passed. As the SCA grows, it seems to be getting harder and harder to get arms registered. Some t! ! errific heraldry is already out there; however, it's unusable because it's registered to someone who has quit the SCA or is no longer active. I think that this heraldry should be released. Also, there are too many points of difference required. Am I the only person who feels this way? Margaret Drysllwyn of Dunroth ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jan 1980 09:42:05 -0500 From: Sally Burnell Subject: [scribes]: Just siigned on! Greetings, fellow scribes! I have just gotten on a computer that will allow me to join this list. Allow me to introduce myself. I am a 20 year member of the SCA from the Marche of Gwyntarian, Midrealm, mundanely Portage/Summit Counties, OH. (Basically Akron/Kent, OH). I have been a scribe for about 19 of my 20 years in the SCA and like the Northern English style of the 13th and 14th centuries. I have been spending the last few years learning period pigments and binders, doing research into those fields and a bit of experimentation into its uses. So far I have only done one piece mostly period, and have just recently learned to make gesso and do raised gesso gilding. I am still very much in a learning curve, and consider myself still very much a student of this craft. I look forward to meeting all of you fellow scribes through interaction on this list. Perhaps one day we might meet in person, say, at Pennsic. Lady Saradwen Ariandalen Marche of Gwyntarian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 22:41:12 -0500 From: "Helen Schultz" Subject: Re: [scribes]: Just signed on! Welcome Saradwen! I'm glad you could find a way to come on-line after I gave you the address. I know you'll find this a worthy place to get help if you need it, or to share with others who need your help. You are a knowledgeable scribe (I know this because I have judged some of your work and talked with you previously), and have a lot to offer here. We are a "motley crew" here, everything from very experienced to just starting. We ALL can learn from each other ... which we do quite regularly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Meisterin Katarina Helene von Schoenborn, OL Shire of Narrental (Peru, Indiana) Middle Kingdom ~~ Vert, a unicorn head couped close Argent, crinned and armed Or, and in sinister, a gore Or ~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Greetings, fellow scribes! I have just gotten on a computer that will > allow me to join this list. Allow me to introduce myself. I am a 20 year > member of the SCA from the Marche of Gwyntarian, Midrealm, mundanely > Portage/Summit Counties, OH. (Basically Akron/Kent, OH). I have been a > scribe for about 19 of my 20 years in the SCA and like the Northern > English style of the 13th and 14th centuries. I have been spending the > last few years learning period pigments and binders, doing research into > those fields and a bit of experimentation into its uses. So far I have > only done one piece mostly period, and have just recently learned to > make gesso and do raised gesso gilding. I am still very much in a > learning curve, and consider myself still very much a student of this > craft. I look forward to meeting all of you fellow scribes through > interaction on this list. Perhaps one day we might meet in person, say, > at Pennsic. > > > Lady Saradwen Ariandalen > Marche of Gwyntarian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 23:47:37 -0500 From: "Susan L. Jessen" Subject: Re: [scribes]: looking for Brause nibs Some Fine Arts Supply stores carry them, but you won't find them at Michaels, Total Crafts, MJD Designs or other "craft" stores. Here are a couple Mail Order sources: Paper & Ink Books, 1-800-PEN-1772 and John Neal Bookseller, 1-800-369-9598. DLDorsey@aol.com wrote: > Hello All, > This is my first posting to a list and I will try to be brief. > I am Deirdre O'Rourke, A&S officer of The Barony of Concordia of the Snows in > the East Kingdom. I am a novice in the scribal arts, but I have been > illuminating Baronial award scrolls and a few Kingdom scrolls this past year > or so. > > I do not as yet do calligraphy ( my poor excuse is the left handed struggle) > but one of my friends who has taken a non-SCA calligraphy class was > recommended to use Brause nibs. She needs a catalog name or source to order > them from. > I would appreciate any info anyone can give. > > This list has been very interesting and informative. I just need to keep up > with the explosion of mail! Thanks in advance> > > Deirdre > Deb Dorsey Schenectady NY ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 16:26:53 +1100 From: Steve Roylance Subject: Re: [scribes]: Hagiography Michel Macdonald wrote: > > Celynen of Stow-on-the-Wold stated . . . I've a degree in Archaeology, > specializing the medieval hagiography. > > Welcome Celynen, Could you please confirm for me that hagiopraphy is > the study of saints. And if true, could you recommend a book that list > feast days for saints. Any thoughts? > > Michel In addition to all those posted you could also look at The Book of Saints, Compiled by the Benedictine monks of StAugustine's Abbey, Ramsgate A&C Black, London, 1989, ISBN 0-7136-3006-X This list all known beatified and cannonised persons with a short biography and a feast date for each. There are over 10 000 entries. As ever Thorfinn, Lochac, West Melbourne, Australia The studying of medieval arts, documents, names and heraldry have greatly lead to an explosion in my library and some very interesting if not odd books and many I would not consider from my mundane experience. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V1 #28 ****************************