Or and Vert

  The theme of this piece seems to have been “Choices were made.”  I’m not entirely pleased with some of the choices I made on this one (enough that I was debating entirely redoing the calligraphy before starting the illumination), but I think it came out well enough in the end. Knowing that the recipient’s persona is (primarily) 13th century English made picking an exemplar easy - I had really enjoyed working from the Rugby-de Brailes bible  on a  previous project , which is 13th c. English, and was more than happy to go back to it for another try. Picking a source for the words, on the other hand, was harder than I expected or wanted, this time around. I just was having the devil of a time finding something appropriate for a fighting award, in 13th century England, that wasn’t thoroughly religious. An offhand comment by Effingham led me down a rabbithole of hunting texts, and I landed on the 15th century Master of Game , based off an earlier work. Close enough! Dig...

I continue to not leave myself enough time to work on scrolls. In the case of this one, I had planned more time, but failed to account for stressing about Kingdom Rapier Champs a week before this was due, and then the BoD threw a wrench into my timeline with their peerage poll - I’m heavily involved in the heraldry community, and spent a chunk of time editing the Pros and Cons document instead of working on this scroll. Ah, well, it still went out on time, but I’d like to be less stressed about it. As usual, I did the entire thing myself because I haven’t figured out how to collaborate with other scribes yet (I’m always worried I’ll ruin their work), and this way my lack of time management isn’t impacting anyone other than myself. The recipient for this one doesn’t have an EK wiki for me to mine for persona details, but based on the documentation for his name as registered (some benefits to being a herald!), I was aiming 14th century Italian, ish. The only other information I had was ...