From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V2 #134 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Friday, July 3 1998 Volume 02 : Number 134 In this issue: [scribes]: Period resevoirs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:48:22 +0100 From: Christina Nevin Subject: [scribes]: Period resevoirs Thomas Brownwell wrote: >> Add a reservoir to a quill by taking something springy bending it into an "S" and inserting it most of the way up into the quill. I've read that this is perfectly authentic -- nothing new there!!! Does anyone have any primary source material documenting/showing this? I would love to know. The local calligraphy/illumination Laurel says she can't find anything. She inserts a cut-off sliver of the quill back into the shaft to act as a reservoir and reckons they probably did something like that, but of course it would be impossible to tell from pictures. Yours in service to the Dream, Lucrezia ========================================================== Lady Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia | mka Tina Nevin Thamesreach Shire, The Isles, Drachenwald | London, UK www.geocities.com/~thorngrove | thorngrove@geocities.com "There is no doubt that great leaders prefer hard drinkers to good versifiers" - Aretino ========================================================== ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V2 #134 *****************************