Laurel - Vivian

I did some calligraphy on a Laurel scroll.  This is Dr. Martin's Spectralite 18 carat gold ink on pergamenata.  

Illumination by Nataliia, words by Alys Mackyntoich, and Arabic translation by  Sara al-Garnatiyya (Kingdom of Meridies).  Gunðormr acted as my Arabic "proof-reader" and says he is rusty but offered some help with letter forms and kerning.

Scroll is base on a 16th C Quaran:  https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Ottoman-School/659616/Folio-from-a-Quran,-sura-71:9-28;-sura-72:1-9-and-part-of-10,-detached-manuscript-folio,-2nd-half-of-16th-century-(ink,-opaque-watercolour-and-gold-on-paper).html?fbclid=IwY2xjawIy911leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHe65vXUGyKWFuGV5ksdOyshzDMluVjfyR8L6t4q12AySUNJ32mTZo1qiew_aem_oS0l-U_yPXNk809LtsgrOQ 

Rejoice! For upon this 26th day of March in the 56th year of the Society, Ioannes and Ro Honig, Imperial Sovereigns, invested and endowed Vivian de Dunbar with laurels and high accolades, showering praise like rose petals upon her head. A wreath of laurel leaves they gave her, and gifts of great value, and, that her worth be known, also Arms by Letters Patent, Purpure, a decrescent and on a chief argent three sprigs of heather palewise purpure. Rejoice!


Arabic:
نبتهج! في هذا اليوم السادس والعشرين من شهر مارس في السنة السادسة والخمسين من عمر الجمعية ، استثمر إيوان ورو هونيغ ، الإمبراطورية السيادية ، ومنحها فيفيان دي دنبار أمجاد وأوسمة عالية ، وتملأ الثناء مثل بتلات الورد على رأسها. أكاليل من أوراق الغار التي قدموها لها ، وهدايا ذات قيمة كبيرة ، ولكي تُعرف قيمتها ، منحت مكانة خطابات براءة اختراع ، أرجوانية ، متدلية وعلى رأس ثلاثة أغصان من هيذر أرجوانية باهتة. نبتهج!


Transliteration:
Nabtaji! fi hadha al-yawm al-saadis wa leishrin min shahr maris fi al-sanat al-saadisat wal-khamsin min eumr al-jam-ee-ath , aistathmar 'iiwan wa ru hunigh , al'iimbiraturiat al-siyadiat , wamanahaha fifiaan di dinbar 'amjad wa'awsimatan ealiatan , watamla al-thana' mithl bitlat al-ward ealaa rasiha. 'akalil min 'awraq alghar alati qadamuha laha , wahadaya dhat qimat kabirat , walikay tuerf qimatuha , manahat makanat khitabat bara'at aikhtirae , 'urjuaniat , mutadaliyatan waealaa ras thalathat 'aghsan min haydhar 'urjuaniat bahitatun. Nabtaji!

Award of Arms - Ander

 Award of Arms for Ander Tynegate.

Words and Calligraphy by me.

Silver Crescent - Robert

Silver Crescent scroll for Robert Whitcome of Brandywine made by members of his scribal family tree. 

Based on the Hours of Catherine of Cleves: https://www.themorgan.org/collection/hours-of-catherine-of-cleves/327?fbclid=IwY2xjawIy7_9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHSAC8xQzt8CblZtJy6jb3v_dit698EIo4pRnE-QDLb3Rb842cy14OCx4rA_aem_8ajt1xdZhd0np8dIqlV2dA 

Words by Harold von Auerbach.

Page1: Thyra Eiriksdottir, me, Marieta Charay, Camille Des Jardins

Page 2: Eloise Coulter, Aaradyn Ghyoot, Eva Woderose

Completed February 2021

Silver Crescent - Lilias

 Order of the Silver Crescent scroll for Lilias de Cheryngton

Scroll text by Gun∂ormr Dengir, Ælia Fortunata and Jerome of Stridon; based on the Song of Songs: http://www.drbo.org/drl/chapter/24001.htm 

Calligraphy and Illumination by Æsa feillinn Jossursdottir; based on Manuscript Vat.lat.9490 f.25v - Vatican Library

Finished scroll

Original, open folio view

Burgundy acid free paper, Dr. Ph. Martin's Spectralite 18 carat gold ink, goauche, schminke water color

Manuscript - Manuscript - Manuscript - 

Latin text:

Quae est ista quae progreditur quasi aurora consurgens, pulchra ut luna lunata, electa ut sol, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata?
Actiones illia columnae marmoreae quae fundatae sunt super bases aureas. Opera eia ut Atlantis, Mundus Cognitus sustinens.
Ea flos Orientis, illa Lilias Cheryngtonis.
Sicut lilium inter spinas, sic Domina nostrae inter Tygrides.
Sicut turris Orientis vis eia, quae aedificata est cum propugnaculis; mille clypei pendant ex ea, omnis bellatores fortium.
Si murus est, aedificemus super eam lunae argenteae;
si cimeliarchium est, ponamus corona Orientis in cautione sua.
Servicium eiae quam signum in Nostro Cordibus, quam signum in Nostra Armis, quia fortis est ut mors Noster Amor eiae.

in illo tempore, cum illis verbis fecerunt, in primo anno Suus Maiestates Tindale et Alberice consulibus, inter nubes candentes, exaltaverunt Liliatem Cheryngtonis ad Ordinem Selenarium Argenteum suo, ut hoc signum gerat, In pale a crescent inverted argent and an Eastern crown Or; simul ut potentias et responsabilitates ordini utatur in saecula saeculorum, vivat.



English text:

Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising,
fair as the crescent moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?
Her acts as pillars of marble, that are set upon bases of gold.
Her labors like Atlas, supporting the known world
She is the flower of the East, this Lillias of Cheryngton.
As the lily among the thorns, so is our Lady among the Tygers
Her Strength is the tower of the East, which is built with bulwarks;
a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armor of valiant warriors.
If she be a wall: let us decorate it with inverted crescents of silver
If she be a treasury, let us place an Eastern Crown within her care
Her service is as a seal upon Our Hearts,
as a seal upon Our Arms,
for Our Love for her is as strong as death

It was in those times and with those words that their majesties Tindal and Alberic, in the year of their first Counsulship did, amidst clouds of light, elevate Lillias of Cheryngton to their order of their silver crescent, that she might bear the mark, In pale a crescent inverted argent and an Eastern crown Or, and exercise the powers and responsibilities of that order for ever and ever, vivat

Coronet - Symon

This piece for a friend was inspired by the coronet from this 13th C source: https://francais-et-chretiens.home.blog/2020/03/05/portrait-saint-louis-1. 

I wanted to keep the diamond and rectangle motif going while incorporating pieces of inspiration from some English illuminations. The rectangle vine motifs were taken from the De Brailes Book of Hours which are available online at the British Library - in particular the center part of the illumination on this page Add MS 49999 folio 1r. 

The finished piece is veg-tan leather, cut to size, and hand dyed black.  Silver plated mounting plates and glass diamond stones.  Motifs are hand painted with Liquitex acrylic paint and Neat-Lack matte spray sealed.  The closure on the back is a flinger loop braid some with a cashmere-wool blue thread.

Home lamp work shop - now working!

 Quarantine project 2 years in the making (brief interruption for ya know...having a baby..) but Sergei got the home lamp work shop going in our garage!  We hadn't done any glass work since the baby. So while he was spending hours re-familiarizing himself of how to make beads, I apparently can zoom in and make a spacer bead that doesn't suck!

It turns out making lamp work beads without carpal tunnel is much easier than with it. :)