From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V3 #7 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Tuesday, September 26 2000 Volume 03 : Number 007 ======================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with unsubscribe scribes-digets in the body of the message. Leave the subject line blank. Do not include any additional text. RE: [scribes]: abecedarian sentences Re: [scribes]: Illuminated Alphabet Re: [scribes]: abecedarian sentences RE: [scribes]: Illuminated Alphabet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:19:06 -0400 From: "Linda Pancrazio" Subject: RE: [scribes]: abecedarian sentences Ooops but hey, it's got *two* ampersands! Geva | -----Original Message----- | From: owner-scribes@castle.org [mailto:owner-scribes@castle.org]On | Behalf Of Rick Gaigneur | Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:38 PM | To: scribes@castle.org | Subject: Re: [scribes]: abecedarian sentences | | | Greetings, all! | | >From Geva's list of abcedarian sentences: | · Calligraphers see words as exquisitely moving, subtle | thicks & thins, | zigzags & joins. | | This sentence doesn't quite qualify (it has no "f"...) | | Aetheric | | | =================================================================== | To unsubscribe from this list, send email to | with a blank Subject: line and | unsubscribe scribes | in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in | the body. | =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:24:26 -0400 From: Jennifer Autrey Subject: Re: [scribes]: Illuminated Alphabet Greetings, As a beginner, I've found the illumination projects in this book to be very helpful in the process of how to tackle a project. I haven't done all of the letters, but I have done several letters and borders, and almost always refer back to this book for ideas. I've found the calligraphy styles to be rather simplified when compared to a real manuscript page or say a Drogin ductus, but again, for a beginner, they're very helpful. Now that I've been doing scribal stuff for a while, I can look at a manuscript facsimile in another book and find myself mentally comparing it to the methods used in The Illuminated Alphabet. I'm no longer intimidated by the more elaborate illuminations, since they're really just more of the same concepts illustrated in this book. It doesn't seem to me that the projects are in any particular order of level of difficulty, so may I suggest that you pick one that tickles you and try it! Lady Claudia Justus Alterius Eburna House Darkyard Roaring Wastes Midrealm Lori Martell wrote: > > Greetings! > > I'm happy now :) > > I've been told for a year now to get a copy of the above mentioned book and > it arrived this morning! What a way to sit and sip coffee in the morning > (drank a whole pot before I realized it!). > > I'm having a grand time leafing through this. Have others gone through and > done all of the various letters? I'm wondering how others may use this > book? I'm wondering if I should start at the beginning and work my way > through each of the letters or pick one and work on it with various > letters... Thoughts? Suggestions? > > Aldiana > Northshield, Midrealm > > =================================================================== > To unsubscribe from this list, send email to > with a blank Subject: line and > unsubscribe scribes > in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in > the body. =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 08:42:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Eloise Beltz-Decker Subject: Re: [scribes]: abecedarian sentences On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Rick Gaigneur wrote: > From Geva's list of abcedarian sentences: > · Calligraphers see words as exquisitely moving, subtle thicks & thins, > zigzags & joins. > > This sentence doesn't quite qualify (it has no "f"...) > > Aetheric Hmmm (knowing a challenge when she hears one) ... Calligraphers see words as full of exquisite movement, subtle thicks & thins, zigzags & joins. Shoot. That gets rid of y. :-> Let's try again. Artists of calligraphy see words as full of exquisite movement, subtle thicks & thins, zigzags & joins. Ok, so it's significantly longer. But it's got all dem letters :-> Eloise the Detail-Oriented of Tree-Girt-Sea in the Midrealm. - -- Eloise Beltz-Decker eloise@ripco.com http://pages.ripco.com/~eloise/ I'm depressive by nature, but a Pollyanna by choice. =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in the body. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:25:43 -0500 From: Kelly Bettis Subject: RE: [scribes]: Illuminated Alphabet I think this is a great book... I am an absolute beginner, (not having produced a completed scroll yet...just started practicing) It's very helpful (at this stage) to see the process from beginning to end. Not many books do this in an userfriendly format. :-) This one does. (and I find the historical tidbits fascinating) For the other beginners out there....just keep in mind that further research beyond this book is needed. Think of this one as a Mechanical Primer (a beginner's how-to) Winnifred - -----Original Message----- From: Jennifer Autrey [mailto:autrejnn@us.ina.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:24 AM To: Lori Martell Cc: scribes@castle.org Subject: Re: [scribes]: Illuminated Alphabet Greetings, As a beginner, I've found the illumination projects in this book to be very helpful in the process of how to tackle a project. I haven't done all of the letters, but I have done several letters and borders, and almost always refer back to this book for ideas. I've found the calligraphy styles to be rather simplified when compared to a real manuscript page or say a Drogin ductus, but again, for a beginner, they're very helpful. Now that I've been doing scribal stuff for a while, I can look at a manuscript facsimile in another book and find myself mentally comparing it to the methods used in The Illuminated Alphabet. I'm no longer intimidated by the more elaborate illuminations, since they're really just more of the same concepts illustrated in this book. It doesn't seem to me that the projects are in any particular order of level of difficulty, so may I suggest that you pick one that tickles you and try it! Lady Claudia Justus Alterius Eburna House Darkyard Roaring Wastes Midrealm Lori Martell wrote: > > Greetings! > > I'm happy now :) > > I've been told for a year now to get a copy of the above mentioned book and > it arrived this morning! What a way to sit and sip coffee in the morning > (drank a whole pot before I realized it!). > > I'm having a grand time leafing through this. Have others gone through and > done all of the various letters? I'm wondering how others may use this > book? I'm wondering if I should start at the beginning and work my way > through each of the letters or pick one and work on it with various > letters... Thoughts? Suggestions? > > Aldiana > Northshield, Midrealm > > =================================================================== > To unsubscribe from this list, send email to > with a blank Subject: line and > unsubscribe scribes > in the body of the message. Do not include any additional text in > the body. =================================================================== To unsubscribe from this list, send email to with a blank Subject: line and unsubscribe scribes in the body of the message. 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