Scribal Links

My Google Drive folder of all my scribal class handouts

SCA Resources

• Northshield Scribe’s Handbook
• SCA Illumination 101
• Ansteorra’s How do I paint award scrolls?
• Calligraphy 101
• Lochac College of Scribes

Online Manuscript Libraries

• British Library
• The Waters Art Museum
• The Morgan Library
• Gallica (National Library of France)
• Digital Scriptorium
• Hill Museum
• Puzzle Letter Index
• List of Insular Manuscripts

Supplies

• John Neal – calligraphy and illumination supplies
• Limners Guild – calligraphy and illumination supplies
• Natural Pigments – powdered pigments, binders, glue, and gold leaf supplies
• Pergamena – parchment
• Wet Paint – Twin Cities art supply store with gouache and calligraphy supplies
• Joann, Michaels, Dick Blick, and Amazon can also get you started.

Artists

• Randy Asplund
• The Pensive Pen
• Medieval Whimsies
• Claire Travers
• Patricia Lovett
• Scribe Scribbling
• Cobalt-Dragonfly Creations
• Arts Nataliia
• Manuscript Junkie
• Aryanhwy’s Calligraphy and Illumination

My Favorite Manuscripts

Insular

• Book of Durrow – 7th England
• Book of Dimma – 8th Ireland
• Book of Kells – 8th Ireland
• Lindisfarne Gospels – 8th England
• Book of Deer – 10th Scotland

Other styles

• Arundal Psalter – 11th England
• Cnut Gospels – 11th England
• Winchester Psalter – 12th England
• Hunterian Psalter – 12th England
• Rochester Bestiary – 13th England
• Maciejowski Bible – 13th France
• Codex Manesse – 14th Zurich
• Egerton Genesis Picture Book (1350-1375)

Bar and Ivy

• Rutland Psalter – 13th England
• Lancelot du Lac – (1300-1325)
• Smithfield Decretals – 14th England (1300-1340)
• Macclesfield Psalter – 14th England (1330)
• Taymouth Hours – 14th England (1325-1340)
• Luttrell Psalter – 14th England (1320-1340)
• Neville of Hornby Hours – 14th England (1340)
• The Bohun Psalter and Hours (2nd half of the 14th century, 1356-1373)
• Bible (Octateuch) (1340-1350)
• Book of Astrological Tables – (1391-1400)
• Omne Bonum Part 1 (1360-1375)
• Omne Bonum Part 2 (1360-1375)
• Flemish Psalter W.110 – 14th Flanders
• Flemish Book of Hours W.85 – 14th Flanders
• Romance of Alexander – 14th Flanders

White vine

• Search the British Library for “white vine” in the image description.

Later

• Hours of Catherine of Cleves – 15th Dutch
• Bedford Hours – 15th France
• MS M.934 – 15th French psalter, with interesting geometric borders
• MS M.454 – 15th Italian Book of Hours, very colorful
• MS M.1089 – 15th Italian Book of Hours, another colorful one
• The Golf Book (MS 24098) – 16th Flemish Book of Hours with landscapes