Sara's scribal page

Useful links

Latin for scribes.

Pigments through the ages.

Searchable database of illuminated capitals.

Liber Floridus Database, searchable by letter: Under 'Mots-cles', type, e.g., "lettre d".

British Library MS simple search.

Texts of period Grants of Arms.

My forays into calligraphy and illumination: Pictures and commentary

August 2010

Lind A Lindquistringes based on a 15th C Dutch MS.

June 2010

SG Calligraphy for a Silver Guard using a blank done by Honor of Restormel.

QoC A writ-style Queen's Order of Courtesy.

Cribhna A backlog AoA, the second of my Visconti borders.

Fox My first scroll for an ID award: an Order of the Fox based on the Hours of Mary of Guelders, 1415.

Bliss A congratulations card for our neighbors across the hall who just had a baby.

Two AoAs calligraphed using blanks done by the Isengau scriptorium.

QoC A Queen's Order of Courtesy based on a 15th C Dutch MS.

May 2010

Mariken A back-log AoA based on a late 15th C MS.

AoA An AoA based on a 15th C MS.

March 2010

AoA An AoA based on Codex Claustroneoburgensis 1193, fol. 404r.

AoA An AoA based on British Library MS Egerton 2633, fol. 1.

Balduin A backlog AoA based on British Library MS Burney 275, fol. 336.

February 2010

A&B Calligraphy for an already illuminated pair of court barony scrolls, done Feb. 20.

B A penwork initial 'B' scroll blank, based on a BL MS.

A A penwork initial 'A' scroll blank, based on a BL MS.

January 2010

Katherine A backlog Lindquistringes based on a British Library manuscript.

Alyssoun A backlog AoA based on a British Library manuscript.

Mikey A Pelican scroll for a dear friend.

November 2009

blank A blank Lindquistringes, based on a Dutch MS.

Robert Calligraphy for a Pelican scroll based on a grant of Elizabeth I.

AoA An AoA using the first of my Visconti borders.

October 2009

AoA An AoA based on a French missal c. 1270.

Aldred A backlog AoA done in penwork.

Alvar A backlog AoA using a 13th C initial.

AoA A German-style AoA.

AoA A Hiberno-Celtic style AoA.

SG A Silver Guard.

TY Another penwork thank you card, done October 1.

CF A wedding gift for a friend, done October 1.

September 2009

Risteard Silver Guard based on a late 12th C image.

TY Some more thank-you cards.

August 2009

TY A thank-you card for my supervisor.

Alaric Some last minute calligraphy and illumination.

Ursula A Lindquistringes done with Celtic knotwork.

July 2009

Elenore A backlog panache based on an early 15th C missal.

Nadiana The calligraphy for an already-illuminated AoA.

AoA A pair of AoAs based on an early 14th C Book of Hours.

Beatrice A backlog panache based on a 13th C MS.

Fleinn A backlog panache based on a late 14th C MS.

A pair of PCSs.

Letters to queens.

June 2009

M A Hiberno-Saxon style PCS.

DB A Dragon's Bowle based on a 13th C MS.

DB A Dragon's Bowle based on the Manesse Codex.

E Four initials for a friend's project, based on a 13th C MS.

May 2009

Some last-minute calligraphy, three scrolls calligraphed the afternoon before they were given out in court.

April 2009

A backlog AoA based on a page from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves.

A backlog AoA based on a late 13th C French ms.

March 2009

A backlog AoA based on a page from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves.

Two backlog AoAs based on a 14th C French manuscript; my first attempt at bar & ivy.

A Dragon's Bowle scroll, my first attempt at a secretary hand.

A Lindquistringes scroll, based on a 14th C manuscript.

February 2009

An AoA scroll based on an early 11th C manuscript.

January 2009

A backlog AoA done in 12th C southern Italian/Greek style.

A backlog Lindquistringes, based on a 14th C manuscript.

December 2008

A backlog Lindquistringes, designed to look like a rune stone

An AoA scroll based on 15th C manuscript.

A sigillum regis scroll, based on an image from a 14th C Icelandic manuscript.

An AoA scroll.

A backlog AoA scroll, based on an early 15th C manuscript.

November 2008

A backlog AoA scroll, based on a 15th C manuscript.

October 2008

A backlog AoA scroll, text based on a period grant of arms.

Panache scroll given at Kingdom University, November 2008

A Lindquistringes scroll

September 2008

Thank you cards for two heralds at the College of Arms.

Lindquistringes scroll

August 2008

AoA scroll based on the Visconti Hours (started in July but finished in August)

A congrats card for a cousin who just had a baby.

June 2008

Laurel scroll based on a Toison d'Or manuscript

March 2008

AoA scroll, in 15th C Dutch style

November--December 2007

Some Christmas presents

A thank-you card

November 2007

Illumination of my arms

August 2007

A set of note cards for a friend

For my Grandpa and his new wife; technically I finished this on Sept. 1, but it still counts as an August project!

May 2007

Copying initials

A thank-you card for my palaeography professor

April 2007

My very first time painting with gouache

July 2005

Bridgets Flame scroll for Robert the Stout (calpgraphy only; illumination by Sophia Pasten)

Pyxis scroll for Petranella Fitzallen of Weston (calligraphy only).

November 2004

Cygnus scroll for Alrekr Agnasson (calligraphy only; illumination by Christianna of Castel Rouge)

Queen's Glove scroll for Robin Arthur Kyrke (calligraphy only; illumination by Osric of Fayrehope).