From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V4 #73 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Thursday, November 16 2000 Volume 04 : Number 073 ======================================================================== 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. [scribes]: Scribe Humor [scribes]: (scribes) Carolingian help Re: [scribes]: (scribes) Carolingian help ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:43:21 -1000 From: "Dubheasa" Subject: [scribes]: Scribe Humor This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01C04FB1.A85AC2E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable How many scribes does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Zero, scribes normally do their own illumination. Lady Dubheasa Western Seas, Caid - ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01C04FB1.A85AC2E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

How many scribes does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Zero, = scribes=20 normally do their own illumination.

Lady Dubheasa

Western Seas, Caid

- ------=_NextPart_000_002C_01C04FB1.A85AC2E0-- =================================================================== 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: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:23:51 PST From: "F Kirk Wendel" Subject: [scribes]: (scribes) Carolingian help I was at the academia in Carreg Wen this last weekend. The first SCA event I've been to in aprox 3 years. I took a classes in leather carving, turkish book binding and last in period penmanship. I found that (among other things) the hand I wish to use on my first real scroll is Carolingian. (Thank you Luighseach.) However, my local library has NO books with this hand in it. There are no dought books I could order in from another branch. For now I would like to know the x-height and angle so I can start practice forms at least untill I can find an example. Thanks in advance Federico Arciere dal Fiore Kirk Wendel Carreg Wen, Caid Lompoc, CA. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. =================================================================== 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: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:48:00 -0500 From: "Sally Burnell" Subject: Re: [scribes]: (scribes) Carolingian help > I was at the academia in Carreg Wen this last weekend. The first SCA > event I've been to in aprox 3 years. > I found that (among other things) the hand I wish to use on my first > real scroll is Carolingian. (Thank you Luighseach.) However, my local > library has NO books with this hand in it. There are no dought books > I could order in from another branch. "Writing & Illuminating & Lettering" by Edward Johnston has a few pages on Carolingian Miniscule (which he calls "Caroline script") that might prove helpful. Also, there is a book called "Carolingian Painting" by Florentine Mutherich and Joachim Gaehde, which is a part of a really nice set of inexpensive books about illuminated manuscripts that Braziller has published. Although it has no instructions as to how to do Carolingian Miniscule, just to see exemplars from the time period should give you an idea of how a proper piece from that time period should look. Hope those help! Good luck, and keep us posted! Saradwen 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. ------------------------------ End of scribes digest V4 #73 ****************************