From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V1 #54 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Thursday, February 12 1998 Volume 01 : Number 054 In this issue: Re: [scribes]: Scribal Signatures Re: [scribes]: measuring -Reply Re: [scribes]: Scribal Signatures Re: [scribes]: measuring ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:21:27 -0800 From: Carolyn_Richardson@cch.com Subject: Re: [scribes]: Scribal Signatures The Scribes Handbook of Caid has several Latin phrases you can use for signing scrolls with your name that Eowyn found. I generally use "scripsit" which if I recall correctly means "written by". There's also "pinxit" for "painted by" and "Faciebat" which I think translated roughly to "by my hand". Sometimes I've combined the first two using the Latin for "and" so that it reads "Scripsit et Pinxit Tetchubah of Greenlake" but that can be a bit wordy. I'm not sure if Eowyn has found more signature lines since then but I think she mentioned a few to me not long ago, but I don't recall what they were. Maybe she'll chip in her 2 cents. Tetchubah of Greenlake Kingdom of Caid ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 20:58:24 -0500 From: "Kenton and Dorinda White" Subject: Re: [scribes]: measuring -Reply - ---------- > From: cellio@pobox.com > To: Cygnus > Subject: Re: [scribes]: measuring -Reply > Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 1:52 PM > > > I haven't done much calligraphy, but when I have I've done something sort > of similar: I decided what line spacing I wanted for the nib I was using, > used my computer to produce lined paper of exactly the right spacing, . > > Ellisif > Computer lined paper is also great for laying out calligraphy (if you are picky about that sort of thing). I keep several different spacings on hand, and when I do a scroll, I pick out the size I want and do a "practice run" on a space the same size as the scroll. That way I can be pretty confident that I won't run out of space at the bottom. If the layout doesn't work, it can be thrown away I try again - but without the bother of drawing a bunch more lines. If there is too much space left over, I can add more text where it sounds best - - not just at the end. Dorinda Courtenay (Dorinda Courtine-White) Shire of Heronter, AEthelmearc Jamestown, NY ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:28:50 -0600 From: Dennis and/or Dory Grace Subject: Re: [scribes]: Scribal Signatures At 01:24 PM 2/11/98 -0800, you wrote: >Hi, everyone, > >A question occurred to me as I was ruminating (sounds like a cow, doesn't >it!) about the discussion on this list last month about recognition of >scribes. I understand that it is not forbidden for a scribe to sign their >work, and that more and more historic examples are known, so I would like >to ask the list what kinds of scribal "signatures" people know about. I >have seen the "So-and-So Made Me" type of signature ... any others? A couple other period practices that I've seen SCA scribes do are using a "maker's mark" and/or including a self-portrait somewhere (usually relatively inconspicuous, like in a lower corner or somesuch). I remember that Master Johannes uses a blue love knot ( I believe that's the proper name). I've sometimes used a symbol that looks like a stylized seahorse (an element of my arms). I have a scroll where the calligrapher and illuminator were husband and wife, and the illuminator (husband) shows himself painting part of the illumination and shows his calligrapher wife finishing an acanthus leaf on one bottom corner. That sort of thing definitely makes for a prize possession. Aquilanne Bryn Gwlad, Ansteorra Austin, TX Dory Grace--The Inkwell denouncer of Tytyvylus & warrior crone amazing@mail.utexas.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 23:19:24 -0800 From: John Stracke Subject: Re: [scribes]: measuring Seton1355@aol.com wrote: > I have been using my wide-grid, see-through quilters rulers to line paper. I > feel that it goes pretty fast that way, and the ruler is wide enough to > stretch all the way across the paper. I like see-through rulers for some stuff (especially knotwork), but the ones I have are just plastic, and tend to slip if I'm not careful. Are yours nonslippery somehow? For most stuff I use a metal ruler with a cork backing. Francois Thibault Crosston, Mists, West /================================================================\ |John Francis Stracke| http://www.thibault.org |S/MIME & HTML OK| |francis@thibault.org|===========================================| |Power Mac w/PPP | My strength is as the strength of ten | |My Mac, my opinions.| because my code is pure. | \================================================================/ ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V1 #54 ****************************