From: owner-scribes@castle.org (scribes digest) To: scribes-digest@castle.org Subject: scribes digest V5 #80 Reply-To: Sender: owner-scribes@castle.org Errors-To: owner-scribes@castle.org Precedence: bulk scribes digest Wednesday, March 14 2001 Volume 05 : Number 080 ======================================================================== 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]: Re: Scriby Renaissance ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:34:50 -0500 From: Elizabeth Blatt Subject: [scribes]: Re: Scriby Renaissance At 12:58 AM -0500 3/10/01, Elyse Boucher wrote: >I understood Geva to be talking strictly about scrivners rather than painters. One thing I am not fond of is the SCA's use of the term "Scribe" to describe a person who does calligraphy and illumination. It's innaccurate; period scribes wrote. They might also paint, but it wasn't called "scribe" duties. Yes, I got myself tripped up on the use of 'scribe', reading it with the SCA definition of calligrapher/illuminator, and fastened on the second half's period application--and forgot about the first! The book I was referring to in my earlier post was, by the way, _The Way Howe to Lymne: Tudor Miniatures Observed_ by Jim Murrell. I had said this title was eponymous with Hilliard's own book's title, but I misremembered; his book's name is _A Treaties Concerning the Arte of Limning_, often just called _The Arte of Limning_. I'd definitely like the other cites you mentioned, whenever you have a chance to dig them up--they sound very interesting. Elianora Mathewes Dominion of Myrkfaelinn, AE =================================================================== 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 #80 ****************************