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
