Scribes

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Example of a Scroll

Scribes are artisans who create wonderful scrolls through Calligraphy and Illumination as well as practice other scribal arts including gilding, paper making, paper marbling, bookbinding and paleography. Scribes function individually or in groups such as the College of Scribes which is the Kingdom Guild for Scribal Arts headed up by the Scribe Armarius

History

(from the August & September 1975 "frankly unofficial" issue of The Crown Prints)

CAID COLLEGE OF SCRIBES

An Acting Scribe Provost has been appointed for Caid, who would like to get people together who enjoy calligraphy & illumination. Lady Frances of Dragonsforge is interested in forming a College of Scribes for the purpose of getting warrants, promissory notes & fully scrolls done with dispatch & DONE WELL. She's most interested in finding people whose ego will not interfere with getting the job done: good calligraphers should be willing to work with good illuminators to produce an excellent scroll (rather than good calligraphy with sorta-good artwork, or vice versa.) Please contact Lady Frances (details omitted) with a small example of your ability soon. Meetings will be called when she has a list of interested people: don't procrastinate on this, there are many scrolls that are already long overdue! The meetings will include some lessons on techniques, etc, as well as close work with the Heralds on certain subjects.

Scroll Gallery

Thanks to Charles Joiner for his work in scanning all the scroll images from the College of Scribes photo albums. This gallery would not exist save for his hard work.

More Information


This section contains a list of Opening Phrases and the Scroll List by Recipient , a work in progress.