Scribal Arts: Writing, Painting, and other Manuscript Arts Linkspage

Quills & Ink
Some info about making quills and ink. It's a Regia Anglorum page, so it's really too early for us, but I'm thinking some of the info probably transfers. http://www.regia.org/quills.htm

Quills & Penknives

Another take on quill making, with a handy diagram depicting penknife profiles by century.

http://wiesenfeuer.ansteorra.org/links/artsandsciences/useofquillpensbyisaacbane.pdf

Penners and Inkhorns
An article about penners (sribe tool cases) and inkhorns, used by scribes to carry their tools around. Most of the information deals with post-14th century penners, but not much is known about them before the 15th century. There are a few textual referances to 14th century penners in the article. There are no manuscript depictions listed, but there is one from 1365 on folio 17v of the "Jeu des Echecs Moralise (The Moralized Game of Chess)", University of Chicago MS 392 at http://roseandchess.lib.uchicago.edu/view.php?doc=0392&obj=046.

http://www.threadsofhistory.com/Eowyn/EowynsEncheiridion/ScribalTools.html

Common Medieval Pigments
A University of Texas 17 page PDF document on common medieval pigments. https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~cochinea/pdfs/a-baker-04-pigments.pdf

The Medieval Palette: Medieval Pigments and their Modern Equivalents
An SCA resource. http://www.sca.org.au/collegium/notes/the%20medieval%20palette.pdf

The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting
A Google Books scan -- might be nice to find the original!

http://books.google.ca/books?id=I1DFuGQeG10C&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=medieval+paint+colours&source=bl&ots=B6bJugteVw&sig=VGNAIqRhqJujJ1AcJrNoCfk7DxQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ay1XUaXvHuTrigLyyICwBw&ved=0CIQBEOgBMA4#v=onepage&q=medieval%20paint%20colours&f=false

Medieval Colours
A blog on medieval painting techniques and materials. http://medievalcolours.blogspot.ca/

Bookbinding Models
Bookbinding models at the University of Iowa Library. The "Early Medieval" book is of particular interest. http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/binding

Making Parchment
A short article about making parchment, with photographs.

http://www.randyasplund.com/pages/article/parchment.html

Index of Medieval Scripts
Medieval scripts, with extant examples. http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/scripts/scrindex.htm

Medieval Handwriting Styles
An introduction to different styles of medieval writing.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/medievaldocuments/handwritingstyles.aspx

Scribe's Handbook
Detailed book about medieval calligraphy and manuscript arts, including a variety of script (font) alphabets. http://www.randyasplund.com/mksb.pdf

Manuscript Studies
Something of an online course about manuscript studies, from our very own University of Alberta.http://www.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/ms-course.htm

Medieval Seals
A database of medieval seal patterns from the University of Notre Dame. http://medieval.library.nd.edu/seals/index.shtml

Making a Wax Writing Tablet
http://www.randyasplund.com/pages/article/waxedtabletstylus.html

Writing Tablets
Wax writing tablets in the Middle Ages. http://www.bl.uk/eblj/1994articles/pdf/article1.pdf