From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V1 #38 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Thursday, February 5 1998 Volume 01 : Number 038 In this issue: Re: [scribes]: Itinerant Writing Masters [scribes]: Foreign looking English alphabets [scribes]: Foreign looking English alphabets [scribes]: wide gold border backgrounds ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 00:59:01 -0800 From: guineth@juno.com (Emily SD Thompson) Subject: Re: [scribes]: Itinerant Writing Masters On Mon, 2 Feb 1998 08:21:13 -0500 "L.A. Christie" writes: > >Every time I pick up Marc Drogin's calligraphy book, I wind up opened >to those few paragraphs where he talks about the itinerant writing >master of late period - lay scribes who made up ... "samplers" of their >work & showed it around to get work. I'm very interested in making >one of these "samplers", & am wondering if anyone has more >information / sources about these writing masters & the sheets >they did up. Nobody else has answered this, so ..... Try _Scribes_and_Sources_, Handbook of the Chancery Hand in the Sixteenth Century, Texts from the Writing-Masters selected, introduced and translated by A.S. Osley, with an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe. Pub. David R. Godine, Boston, 1980; ISBN No. 0 87923 297 8. There is quite a bit of material therein concerning over a score of writing - masters, much of it either plates of the actual samplers or translations from period sources. Comments by the man who put the book together are at a minimum, and the descriptions of the plates helpfully note when the plate is reduced. No ducti are given, but using this book in conjunction with Jacqueline Svaren's _Written_Letters_ and a bit of deduction yields an adequate result. YIS, Sister Guineth the White _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 06:09:23 +0100 From: David Columbus Subject: [scribes]: Foreign looking English alphabets Just a little note to the people that dropped me SASE's for my handout. Since the time I posted that message and the present, I moved. And you know how hectic that can be. The handout is still being doe, it's just going to take slightly longer. So be patient, I haven't forgotten about it. The email address is still the same... for now. Will be getting a new address soon. Thank you for your patiences... B'wana Christofano ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 07:11:42 +0100 From: David Columbus Subject: [scribes]: Foreign looking English alphabets Greetings to those who send me SASE's for my handout. I apologize for the delay in responding. It's probably because I gat a new job and had to pick and leave in a hurry. But I will be getting those handouts to you as soon as life settles down a bit. Currently my old email address is still valid but I am searching for a local ISP. I receive my mail on the old address but send it out through a friend's local account. So if you contact me, watch the account you send it to. Again, I am sorry for the delay. The handouts will be coming soon... B'wana Christofano ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 08:12:09 -0600 From: Cindy Baker Subject: [scribes]: wide gold border backgrounds Lady Enid nicEoin of Ponte Alto said I have noticed on some of these gold backgrounds, when 'realistic' looking flowers are painted 'in front of' the gold background, the illuminator often puts a reddish looking shadow behind the flower. I have not had a chance to look at any real manuscript pages to determine how this shadow effect is achieved. Are they painting on top of the gold, or is some of the gold scraped away to leave the reddish bole or gesso showing through? Any ideas or opinions on the 'best' way to execute this type of border? Thanks, Ellen of the Scholars Baile na Scolairi (Middle Kingdom) Cindy E. Baker Bloomington, IL cebaker@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V1 #38 ****************************