From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V1 #94 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Saturday, February 28 1998 Volume 01 : Number 094 In this issue: Re: [scribes]: Re: defining terms Re: [scribes]: Speaking of bole.... [scribes]: scribal errors ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:04:55 EST From: FITCHYBEAR Subject: Re: [scribes]: Re: defining terms In a message dated 98-02-27 12:29:52 EST, PTS21@aol.com writes: << Glair and egg yolk can both make your surface a little shiny. AND some pigments will re-act with yolk and change--I purposely mixed a copper based blue with yolk instead of glair so that over time, the dress the woman on the scroll was wearing would turn green. I believe it's working, but I haven't seen that scroll in a while. >> Yolk has a particularly spectacular effect on most reds too it gives the reds a stunning depth including the "redder" earth colours...Am getting ready to try it with viridian to see what it does to that copper based colour. BTW so you know, in an earlier post someone said that glair gets smelly quickly it does but I have had some luck refridgerating it, portioning out what I will need and warming it slowly to room teperature. Yolk virtually has no smell once it is removed from the yolk sac-JimBear ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:04:51 EST From: FITCHYBEAR Subject: Re: [scribes]: Speaking of bole.... In a message dated 98-02-27 12:09:46 EST, Carolyn_Richardson@cch.com writes: << If I ordered some would anyone, particularly here in Caid where it could be easily transferred, be interested in buying some of the extra cones off me? Tetchubah of Greenlake Kingdom of Caid >> You got a customer here....JimBear ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:31:36 EST From: Seton1355 Subject: [scribes]: scribal errors I got this off of sca.rec.org/newsgroug. I thought some of you might enjoy reading about this. Phillipa Seton Subject: Re: In Period they screwed up too... From: "Bryan J. Maloney" Date: Thu, Feb 26, 1998 11:51 EST Message-id: <34F59D99.6A0E@cornell.edu> I was looking over a late Medieval French (or was it Italian?) psalter that Cornell's Kroch Rare Collections Library had on display in their obscure little display room in a second sub-basement behind the Olin Library, and this very point really hit home. This was an illuminated Psalter, ostensibly intended for use during the Liturgy for the Roman Catholic Church. It was not just a set of scribbled notes. In an SCA "Arts and Science" contest, even though this was a 100% verified historical artifact, it probably would have scored very low. The scribes didn't even attempt to erase their guidelines. Illumination was somewhat spotty, with colors sometimes over-reaching their apparent proper boundaries in the pictures. Decorative patterns were irregular and looked hastily drawn. There were a couple of initials that were not completely filled in with color, revealing the underlying sketch. The problem is that we, in the Industrial era, have grown extremely used to lines being straight and joints fitting perfectly *all the time*. They do so because they are done by machine. But when we encounter a hand-made object that doesn't have these industrial features, we put it down to "poor workmanship". ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V1 #94 ****************************