I got some wonderful presents for my birthday! My thoughtful family decided to club together and get me the following:
1 pre-cut square of Sheep parchment
1 pot of powdered Sandarac
1 pot of powdered Lapis Lazuli pigment
1 pot of powdered Vermillion pigment
I packet Gesso di Bologna
I packet Rabbit Hide Glue
I would love to paint a miniature on parchment, using real crushed Lapis, Malachite, Vermilion and Red Ochre with raised gilding using real gold on period recipe Gesso and gum ammoniac size and scribed with Oak Gall Ink!!!
And now I have all the ingredients!!
I feel a project for an A&S competition coming on!!
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About Me
- Melisende Fitzwalter
- South-East, United Kingdom
- Wherein I list the Scribal Projects I have undertaken in my attempt to educate myself on this subject
A&S 50 Challenges
- - Become proficient in bastard secretary
- - Become proficient in Carolingian
- - Become proficient in gothic quadrata - DONE
- - Become proficient in Uncial/half uncial
- - Create a fully period piece for an A&S competition - DONE
- - Create a piece for an A&S Competition - DONE
- - Create at least one scroll on Parchment - DONE
- - Do at least one scroll in Latin
- - Do at least one scroll in Medieval French
- - Give Beginners classes on Scroll-making - DONE
- - Hand-make a gilder's cushion
- - Learn and make a printed scroll
- - Learn how to cut a Quill - DONE
- - Learn how to do period book-binding
- - Learn how to make parchment - DONE
- - Learn how to make period paper
- - Learn how to use period pigments - DONE
- - Learn how to use quills - DONE
- - Learn to design on a gilded surface - DONE
- - Learn to do Raised gilding - DONE
- - Learn to make wax seals
- - Learn to use a plummet to score lines - DONE
- - Learn to Use Pergamenata - DONE
- - Learn to use period implements and equipment
- - Learn to use Shells as Palettes - DONE
- - Make a hand-bound book of hours
- - Make a miniature account of Life of Albion
- - Make a peerage scroll - DONE
- - Make a set of blank Scrolls for ID - DONE
- - Make a set of blank scrolls for Kingdom
- - Make a travelling Scribe set of notebook and quill
- - Make glair and use it
- - Make my own parchment
- - Make my own period ink (gall/lamp)
- - Make my own period pigments
- - Make period gesso - DONE
- - Make Scroll in Book of Kells style
- - Make Scroll in Codex Manesse Style - DONE
- - Make Scroll in Early Period Style
- - Make Scroll in Morgan Bible Style - DONE
- - Make scroll in non-European style - DONE
- - Make scroll in Penwork style - DONE
- - Make Scroll in Renaissance Style - DONE
- - Make scroll in Romanesque Style - DONE
- - Make scroll in White Vine style
- - Make scroll is grisaille style - DONE
- - Make Scroll on stained purple parchment
- - Make Scroll on wood
- - Make Scroll with Historiated Miniature - DONE
- - Research and execute marginalia
Video links
Some Useful Links
- 100 Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
- Bodleian Library Images of Manuscripts
- Calligraphy & Lettering Society
- Codex Manesse Facsimile
- Domesday Book
- Dragon's Scriptorium
- Falkiners bookbinding supplies (Parchment +Vellum)
- Harvard University Medieval Calligraphy Page
- Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
- Homepage of a Scribal Guru!
- Kingdom of Drachenwald Clerk Signet Page
- Known World Scriptorium
- L.Cornelissen & Son Art Suppliers
- Scribal Arts
- Scribblers Calligraphy Equipment and Materials
- Society of Scribes & Illuminators