From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V5 #29 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Thursday, February 22 2001 Volume 05 : Number 029 ======================================================================== 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]: Hello again and thank you all for a warm welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:36:11 +0100 From: "Brahdelt" Subject: [scribes]: Hello again and thank you all for a warm welcome! Dear Lady Katarina, Thank you so much for a warm welcome. In a couple of days there will be an English version of our Principality site, maybe even on Monday or Tuesday. I'm glad you liked it, it looks like that because we wanted it to resemble a manuscript. My English is good due to the fact I have been studying it for 5 years at the Warsaw University - English Philology Dept., concentrating mainly on British Literature and Early Culture of British Isles. Now I have still my M.A. thesis to write, which will cover some topic from the Irish literature, James Joyce probably. I visited your website, and I liked your works, especially the Wedding Announcement (I am thinking about something similar nowadays, because two of my people - my subjects living on my land - are getting married at the end of June, so I would like to prepare for them a special souvenir), and a scroll based on Luttrell Psalter. I also admire the works of your apprentices lady Kris Giribali and lady Anne of Armonye. As far as the access to art supplies in Poland - in Warsaw there are about 10 Art Shops, and you can find here quite a wide range of different good quality professional paints, brushes, inks, gold leaf, parchment (although in Art Shops parchment is rather expensive, so I order it by mail delivery from the Paper Museum, where they produce the paper in different formats, colours and thickness, quite cheap in fact). The bigger problem is access to books, you can find some in second-hand bookshop if you are very lucky. I've found Christopher de Hamel's "A History of Illuminated Manuscripts" in the University Library (I put the translation of this book on our website), but most of my info and inspirations come from the Internet. I did not know about the site devoted to the Manesse Codex, I took the pictures from the book isssued in Polish, including some illuminations and many poetry of German minnesangers, very nice one. Have you got the address of this website? Thank you for your letter once more and best regards, Finnarwen of Formendor Principality of Draconia (Joanna Zelazko, Warsaw, Poland) =================================================================== 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 V5 #29 ****************************