From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V2 #86 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Wednesday, June 17 1998 Volume 02 : Number 086 In this issue: Re: [scribes]: Re: Scribal Soapbox Re: [scribes]: scribal soapbox RE: [scribes]: speedballs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 16:58:28 +1000 From: Steve Roylance Subject: Re: [scribes]: Re: Scribal Soapbox Hi, have a look at some of the real and period AoA scrolls and they are quite heavily decorated. The Oxford Guide to Heraldry, Woodcock & Robinson, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988, 0-19-211658-4, plate 9 has a grant of arms dated 1547, it has a floral border 20% of the height of the scroll, with badges of the royalty in it. The initial T done in a Lombardic versal with a portrait of the king of arms in the middle is nine lines writing high from a total of nineteen lines. On the photo, the manuscript is 180mm wide with 35mm for the left decorated margin including the arms being granted and 18mm wide down the right flowing on from the similar weight border on the top. The bottom is folded and seals were pendent. Plate 8 has a grant from 1576, which has more writing and a much plainer but still impressive border. as ever Thorfinn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 07:05:08 -0400 From: "Dorinda E Courtine-White" Subject: Re: [scribes]: scribal soapbox Please respond to dragonfly@psynet.net To: scribes@castle.org cc: (bcc: Dorinda E Courtine-White/Auto/Cummins) Subject: [scribes]: scribal soapbox Chiara da Ravenna wrote: With every scroll a scribe completes, fill out a "scroll report". Some info included could be: Artist's name, contact info, materials used, sources of inspiration, calligraphy style, care and feeding instructions, and number of hours spent on it's creation. Also, this would be a good place to have a printed version of the wording (even the most legible script can sometimes cause problems for the heralds) Any other info that seems applicable could also be included. What does everyone think? (Be gentle with me:) Dorinda replies: I think it is wonderful! I am amazed at the number of scrolls I have seen (some hanging on my wall) that were never signed at all or were signed with just an SCA name of someone I don't know how to contact. One of the people I thought I could contact had moved and my snail mail thank you "bounced". This would be a good way to make sure people knew how to contact a scribe and all that other info without hiring a private detective. One more thing: for people who write their info on the back of the scroll, if you wish to write in ink so it can be seen, do it behind a part of the scroll that is fairly densly covered. We seem to have a rash of people scrawling "illumination by Jane Doe" across the back of the scroll in huge, dark, calligraphed letters in the (blank) middle of the scroll. The don't realize that it can show through to the front when the scroll is displayed! Dorinda Courtenay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:07:46 -0500 (EST) From: john j cash Subject: RE: [scribes]: speedballs Dear folks, Deanna writes, "I started with a Speedball (yup, I know what you all are going to say, Lose it) C5" I also started with Speedball nibs, and have found nothing that works better for me, except natural nibs (reeds, quills). I have done all my work with one or the other. -- master johannes, ol ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V2 #86 ****************************