Writing With Period Ink
On Saturday February 4, 2017 I posted about making ink from a period recipe book. The redacted recipe. To Make Ink for Writing on Parchment (A Booke of Secrets: Shewing […]
Ink Recipe 1596
I’m working on making ink from a recipe from the following long titled book A Booke of Secrets: Shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of Inkes and […]
Draw a Circle in Ink
The tool to draw a circle is called a compass. In case you have not seen the tool. There are many variations of this drawing tool. The compass in some […]
Online Information Resources for Scribes
The internet has resources that are very useful for historical scribes. I have put together a list of resources that I have found useful. These include general information, glues, binders, […]
Digital Manuscript Sources
Want to find manuscripts online? Here is a starting list for you. Map of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts in Europe 15th Century Book of Hours Bodleian Library – Western […]
Books, Glorious Books.
What books are good for use for scribes? I have made a listing of books deemed good for both Calligraphers, Decorators and Illuminators. While this list is focused on the […]
Period in the SCA
The SCA time period is set by the governing documents of the SCA as pre-17th Century. That is 1600 to the dawn of time. Common practice is most people stick with […]
