
This
scroll is an Award of Arms for a teenage boy who, even at a tender age,
has done a lot in the SCA. His arms are already registered, so I could
fill those in, which as a scribe, I always appreciate. The inspiration
piece was a 15th c. French manuscript from here
(f.17r).
It was awarded at Coronation in April 2011. |
I
was asked to do a gift scroll for the Estrella War, for the Kingdom of
Ansteorra, due at Birka 2011. This is one of the big events where the
other kingdoms are courted to be allies for Pennsic. So the scribes of
the East do gift scrolls for all the kingdoms. The theme this year was
to do them as poems where the first letter of each line spells out
"Estrella War". The wording was provided by Lady Emma MacMinn. The
border is from this
(f.1v)
14th c. English manuscript that I really liked when I was researching
the AoA from March 2010. |
So
after the Shire scroll turned out so well, I was given a somewhat short
notice assignment to do a Queen's Order of Courtesy scroll for Birka,
in January 2011. I knew that would be a good one to do with the big
fancy batarde cadel. I found a nice example of all the letters done as
cadels, and used that as my model for doing the H. The glove with the
blue and gold rose is the badge for the QoC. |
This
scroll was done for our Shire's Keeper of the Light (service) award
given at our Yule revel in December 2010. The scroll was for the same
couple that I did
the Romeo and Juliet AoA's at GNEW. I have for a while admired other
cadel scrolls; I like the simple elegance of them. So I wanted to give
it a try. I based it on this
manuscript page. I am really happy with it and plan to do a kingdom
level scroll in this style sometime soon. |
I
did this Award of Arms for the Shire's Knight Marshall, Tegan, to be
awarded at Fall Crown in October 2010. However, he was not able to
attend the event, and never attends court even when he is at an event.
The King was supposed to give it to him at the fighter practice that
they both attend, but ended up cornering him after court at Birka to
give it to him. It is done in a Celtic style, based on some versals
from the Book of Kells. I actually have a physical book on the Book of
Kells, so I don't have any online references to link to for my sources. |
This
Order of the Maunche was for the current Queen's A&S Champion, Alys
Attwater. It is based on two pages from the Luttell Psalter. The
portrait at the bottom is from folio
166v, because part of what she does is raising chickens. The rest
of the border is from folio
59v. I liked the fall theme since the event was Fall Coronation, in
late September 2010. |
![]() These
two scrolls were done as Awards of Arms for a husband and wife, who
jumped into our Shire with both feet about a year previously. They
became very active, and I was honored to do their scrolls. They had
recently played both leads in a production of Romeo and Juliet. Lady
Teresa Giani gave me the idea to do an homage to Shakespeare, and I ran
with it. It was fantastic seeing their faces when the scrolls were read
in court (not to mention, the grins of the Royalty) at the 2010 Great
Northeastern War. Inspired by several 14th c. English manuscripts,
including this
(f.1),
this
(f.13),
and this
(f.1).
This
was my first time doing rubrication (all the little red and blue
penwork). All in all, it was a fun time. |
When
my friend Mistress Eleanor LeBrun was to receive a Silver Crescent, I
was asked to do her scroll. Her persona is late period French, so I
decided to do a bars and ivy design, in her colors of red, green, and
gold. It was inspired by several 14th c. French manuscript pages (Hours
of the Duke of Berry), and
the whitework helps to prevent what I call the "Christmas Elves Gone
Wild" feel. Done with real gold gilding, and lots of gauche. I did the entire scroll while on vacation
in a (very) rustic cottage just on the New York side of the Canadian
border. The photo is not the greatest, as it was taken with a
cell phone at the event, the 2010 Northern Region War Camp in Glenn
Lynn (daytripped on the way home from said vacation). Wording was done
by Lady Teresa Giani (who was on vacation with me). |
This
Award of Arms for Katherine O'Brien was awarded at the Festa de
Michaelangelo in Carolingia in March 2010. I took the assignment on
short order, so I wanted to so something fairly simple, but elegant. I
found this cool 14th c. English source here
(f. 86v).
I hadn't done the Gothic hand in about 20 years, so I practiced it for
a while, and I'm pretty pleased with how easily it came back. Still
room for improvement, though! This was also the first AoA I've done
where the recipient already had registered arms, so it was great to be
able to include those. The gold is real gilding, and I think I'm
getting better at it. I was particularly pleased with how well my
version matched the inspiration piece. |
This
Order of the Silver Crescent scroll is my first scroll where I was
requested as the scribe! It is for my friend Lady Toi Poisson de
Mortagne, who has a late period French persona. Her arms are blue and
silver with fish. I found a source here
(ff.
84v-85) with the white on blue that I thought looked like a stream,
if I put fish in it instead of the florals. I also wanted a background
with fleur-de-lis, to personalize it for Toi, and I found a different
source with that kind of background here (record
here).
So I combined the two, and used the fish from her arms. I am very
pleased with the result, and Toi loved it! She received it at the 2010
Birka Marketplace. |
This
Order of the
Burdened Tyger scroll for Baron Jean Xavier Boullier, was awarded at
East Kingdom Twelfth Night in January 2010. It is taken from late
period French sources, and is my most complicated scroll to date. The
border and idea for the versal were taken from here
(f. 13). The vine work and acanthus leaves were inspired from here
(f. 1). The
gold is all real gilding, and I used 4 sheets of gold leaf to get the
coverage. The one thing I discovered is that gouache over permacol
doesn't work the best. I put permacol down for the tyger before I
realized that the badge was a blue tyger on a gold background. So I
painted blue gouache over the permacol, and the paint kept cracking. I
had to use a couple of coats before it got to the point where it looked
decent. But overall, I was happy with the finished product. |
This
scroll was made for a Shire of Quintavia award called the Keeper of the
Light, for service. I received the award in June 2008, and passed it on
at the Shire Yule Revel in December 2009. I was a little pressed for
time in making the scroll,
so I concentrated on the calligraphy, and kept the illumination to a
minimum, although it was inspired by several pages of text from the
Book of Kells. This was actually a joint scroll, given to a husband and
wife, Brokk and Rozi. |
I
was given this
assignment for a Queen's Order of Distinction with very little
information, and unfortunately, had no luck getting more. The recipient
was Elizabeth Talbot of Meath, so I pulled out a blank I had actually
started a while ago after taking a class in the "squashed bug" style. I
found a source from the Hastings Hours (folio 74),
c. 1480. The silver acorn is the badge of Queen Brenwen. Awarded at the
Known World Academy of the Rapier and Costumers Symposium in Bhakail in
October 2009. |
This
Award of Arms
for Sigurd Danski is the first time I've used real gold leaf, thanks to
the tutelage of Mistress Ygraine of Kellswood. This was also the first
time I had done a scroll based (loosely) on an actual period source.
Based on an Eusebian Canon table in the Book of Kells (Folio
5r) and a portait of Saint Patrick inside the arch (from a
different source). Awarded at the Vineland Raids in Smoking Rocks in
June 2009. |
My
first Kingdom
level scroll in over 15 years. It was a backlog, a Grand Master Bowman
scroll for Meruit Kierandottir. According to her father, she likes
sagittarius and the color purple, and her persona, despite the Viking
surname, is Welsh. So I did purple knotwork for the border, and
incorporated a sagittarius slaying a dragon as part of the illuminated
versal. Given at the Mudthaw event in March 2009. |
These
are five prize scrolls I
did for the Northern Lights event in March, 2009. The first four are
all in a Celtic style, as I was gearing up to do a major award scroll
with Celtic illumination and calligraphy. The last one is a
Russian/Byzantine style illumination I've been dying to try.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
| These are
three scrolls that I did for the Crossroads at
Canterbury
event in September 2007, for the "Populus
Choice"
awards for the tourney that was held. The wording is done by Master
Peregrine
the Illuminator, as a Chaucer-style poem. The "title" of the poem is
"The-Name-of-the-Recipient's
Tale". The illumination and calligraphy are by me. The titles, of
course, had to be filled in after the tourney,
and were
done on my ricketty table in my campsite. Ah, the adventures of a
scribe
in the SCA. The scroll for "Best Performance" went to Master Lucius Magnus Castus. The scroll for "Most Valorous" went to Duke Brion Tarragon (and his name was mispelled on the scroll because that's how it was given to me). The scroll for "Best Appearance" went to Lord D'Sebastianus Diomedes. ![]() ![]() ![]() |