Award: Seamstress to the Crown
Hand: humanist bookhand
Specs: guache on pergamentata
Source: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=26600
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| My scroll with a print out of the original for comparison. Final scroll was 5"x7". |
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| Close up of the finished piece. |
I felt like this piece has a lot of things going right for it. The hand was light and airy enough, most of the capital letters looked correct (including most of the S capitals). The scaling I think went fine except for the illuminated capital F which is a tad too small. Measuring out the F to the predetermined block size went better than expected and all the guoache and shmincke gold cooperated.
Scroll text was fleshed out for reading in court:
"While the skill of our artisans is hailed through the Known World, it is also their generosity that makes them and by extension, the East truly great. For her creation of largesse for our kingdom do We, Brion the King and Anna the Queen name Svea the Short-Sighted as a Seamstress to the Crown. Done on this 25th day in March A.S. 51 at the Thawing of the Mud."
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