Re: [Mid] "Must-Own" books for scribes

And especially for beginners, don't forget Marc Drogin's Medeival
Calligraphy!

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> From: Sally Burnell <sburnell@acorn.net>
> To: Middlebridge <sca-middle@dnaco.net>
> Subject: [Mid] "Must-Own" books for scribes
> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 1997 5:45 PM
>
> Greetings one and all! Allow me to takea wee bit of your time to tell you

> of several "must-own" books if you are a scribal type. These books have
> served me well as research tools and I feel obliged, as a scribe,
> apprentice to a laurel in callig/illum and a Companion of the Willow, to
> share this information with you:
>
> The Craftsman's Handbook (Il Libro dell'arte) by Cennino Cennini
> pub. by Dover Books, 1933/1960. ISBN 0-486-20054-X $6.95
>
> The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting by Daniel V. Thompson
> (who translated Il Libro dell'arte, BTW!) pub. by Dover Books, 1956
> ISBN 0-486-20327-1 $8.95
>
> On Divers Arts by Theophilus, pub. by Dover Books, 1979
> ISBN 0-486-23784-2 $9.95
>
> Medieval Craftsmen: Scribes and Illuminators by Christopher DeHamel
> pub. by University of Toronto Press 1994 (not sure of cost)
> ISBN 0-8020-7707-2
>
> Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life by Roger S.
> Wieck, pub. in association with the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, by
> Braziller Books 1988 ISBN 0-8076-1189-1 (not sure of cost)
>
> A History of Illuminated Manuscripts bu Christopher DeHamel
> pub. by Phaidon, 1986, (first edition, anyway) $45.00 (there is a second
> ed. out that I think is more expensive) ISBN 0-87923-631-0
>
> These are books that I would urge you to put on your Christmas list for
> you friends and family. They are all "must-own" reference books for the
> serious scribe. I use them constantly for documentation purposes!
>
>
> Lady Saradwen Ariandalen
> C & I Apprentice to Master Christofano
> Vecchione (AEthelmearc)--
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Received on Fri Dec 19 21:55:13 1997