From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V5 #14 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Wednesday, February 14 2001 Volume 05 : Number 014 ======================================================================== 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]: Latin translation needed [scribes]: materials question ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:18:44 EST From: Aengus1@aol.com Subject: [scribes]: Latin translation needed Greetings unto all who read these words. Good gentles, I find myself needing assistance. I am trying to translate the words "Go ahead and run, you will only die tired" into Latin so I may carve it into a leather belt. I went to the SCA translation site, but it would not let me log in to make the request :-( If any of you can assist me in this matter, please contact me directly. Thanks in advance! Aengus =================================================================== 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: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:40:16 -0600 From: "Amy L. Hornburg Heilveil" Subject: [scribes]: materials question - --=====================_165711600==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Salut! I will be reproducing a book to its original size specifications and I have a question before I go and spend several hundred dollars on parchment/vellum. (Actually, I'll get it in increments, as I don't have pockets that deep nor so much time as to complete the project quickly.) In Southern Germany would calf or kid vellum be more widely used in books and manuscripts? The book I am going to reproduce would require a piece of parchment 22"x30" to be folded into the proper size. (I think.) This seems a little large for a kid, therefore my sense tells me it was probably done on calf. The analysis of the book, which I have read also refers to the material as vellum, which in many circles means calf. (I know other people who use parchment and vellum interchangably). I just want to know if anyone has any idea as to the more common for that place around the middle 1500's. Also, has anyone a good source for quill feathers? I wish to begin cutting my own pens (and I know the first few will likely be not so good) but have no source for feathers of which I am aware. I do realize that I am being a little more finiky than I necessicarily should for this but I want to do it right. Any help I can get on this would be appreciated. In Respectivo, Despina de la Brasov - ---------- It is worth adding, or so I think, that playing dice and frequenting the court are similar in the prizes which they offer: neither leads to contentment, both reward with complete impartiality the worthy and the unworthy. -Gerald of Wales, 1215 - --=====================_165711600==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Salut!

I will be reproducing a book to its original size specifications and I have a question before I go and spend several hundred dollars on parchment/vellum.  (Actually, I'll get it in increments, as I don't have pockets that deep nor so much time as to complete the project quickly.)

In Southern Germany would calf or kid vellum be more widely used in books and manuscripts?  The book I am going to reproduce would require a piece of parchment 22"x30" to be folded into the proper size. (I think.) This seems a little large for a kid, therefore my sense tells me it was probably done on calf.  The analysis of the book, which I have read also refers to the material as vellum, which in many circles means calf. (I know other people who use parchment and vellum interchangably). I just want to know if anyone has any idea as to the more common for that place around the middle 1500's.

Also, has anyone a good source for quill feathers?  I wish to begin cutting my own pens (and I know the first few will likely be not so good) but have no source for feathers of which I am aware.

I do realize that I am being a little more finiky than I necessicarily should for this but I want to do it right.

Any help I can get on this would be appreciated.

In Respectivo,
Despina de la Brasov
It is worth adding, or so I think, that playing dice and frequenting the court are similar in the prizes which they offer: neither leads to contentment, both reward with complete impartiality the worthy and the unworthy. -Gerald of Wales, 1215

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