I had a great time in the scriptorium workshop today\u2013 what a way to start a morning!<\/p>\n
I think it was worth more than my own entertainment, though. I ended up working on a historiated letter, trying to\u00a0combine a few historical examples to\u00a0come up with\u00a0one I really loved, that was both interesting and traditional, both intricate and feasible. With this experience I think I have a better understanding of medieval scribes’ environment. They placed a lot of importance on copying and otherwise maintaining traditions of their craft. Still, look at the variety and expression we see in even the fraction of their work we can still see today! They knew how to fix and match, and that’s a part of what we learned today in the scriptorium.<\/p>\n
On a more concrete note, we also got a lot of hands-on experience mixing paints, sketching, and inking that brought us closer to the scribes we’re studying. We faced questions like “how do I make this T symmetrical?” and “what do I do now that the muller is stuck again?” that force you to put more thought into the process<\/em> of an illuminated manuscript than you might just looking at one for content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a great time in the scriptorium workshop today\u2013 what a way to start a morning! I think it was worth more than my own entertainment, though. I ended up working on a historiated letter, trying to\u00a0combine a few historical examples to\u00a0come up with\u00a0one I really loved, that was both interesting and traditional, both … <\/p>\n