From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V2 #126 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Tuesday, June 30 1998 Volume 02 : Number 126 In this issue: [scribes]: Scroll wordings Re: [scribes]: Light Tables [scribes]: Curves over compass lines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:30:02 -0400 From: Sally Burnell Subject: [scribes]: Scroll wordings We in the Midrealm are not restricted to standardised scroll wordings. As long as the requisite information is present, we are permitted creativity in creating wordings for scrolls. The big problem is that for so many years we did have proscribed wordings that we used, that all began with the salutation, "Be it Known.........." All of us scribes grew weary of trying to find new ways to creatively illuminate a capital "B". So now that there is no longer such a restriction, scribes have yet to discover just how to creatively word a scroll. Some scribes are very, very good at it. Others toil to find unique wordings. Not everyone is gifted with the ability to write interesting wordings, so many of them resort to the wordings that are suggested in our Kingdom Scribal Handbook. Some scribes are more comfortable using already written texts that they do not have to think up. And that is fine. If you possess a creative mind and can write interesting texts, go for it. But we do not have "wording police" who restrict us to certain scroll texts. It is merely up to the individual scribe to do what they feel comfortable in doing. Lady Saradwen Ariandalen Marche of Gwyntarian Midrealm ICQ # 13015575 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:41:04 EDT From: Varju@aol.com Subject: Re: [scribes]: Light Tables Hmmmm. . .that's a consideration. . .I wouldn't have to brush him as much. . . But boy would he be mad at me and he might look a bit silly. Have you ever seen a shaved Persian? :-> Noemi ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:48:48 EDT From: EowynA@aol.com Subject: [scribes]: Curves over compass lines In a message dated 6/30/98 1:25:32 PM, brownwell@home.com wrote: <> I don't really know if they had ruling pens, but I suspect not. I also suspect that they did the knots freehand (without rulers). According to Mark van Stone (in "Ornamental techniques in Kells and its kin" in the _Book of Kells_ (conference proceedings)), the compass drawn circles were generally impressed into the vellum (though see Backhouse's _Lindisfarne Gospels_ for layout done with something more substantial), and joined using graduated curve-templates (think of the absolutely regular locks of hair on the Echternach lion for an idea of their curve templates -- much like our French curves, n'est-ce pas?). They may also have free-handed them, I'm sure. But a series of small French curves would make this task much easier and regular. Eowyn, sitting home waiting for a computer desk to arrive (I'm not sure I can afford their "sometime between 9 and 5" brand of free delivery) ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V2 #126 *****************************