This blog explores how to perform an early Carolingian binding from the 9th century. I wrote it as a preparatory step toward creating a more definitive guide on how to make your own early Carolingian binding. In the meantime, this…
In the previous blog, we explored how to determine the page layout for a manuscript project. Now, we’ll focus on the manuscript page preparation for writing, which are the final preparations needed before writing starts. These preparations consist of folding…
Here’s another bestiary progress update. With just a handful of pages left to write, the manuscript text is nearly complete. This has me excited to start painting soon. But even if I’ve finished writing, I cannot start on the decoration…
Manuscript layout and design depends on precise measurements. Therefore, determining the page size is the first step in creating a manuscript. Since animal hides serve as the material for manuscripts, no standardized sizes exist untill the advent of printed books.…
So, maybe you’ve decided to create a manuscript, or are just simply interested in the process of creating one. Whatever the case, one of the first steps in a manuscript project is the text selection. Unless you wrote it yourself,…
Whether you want to start a manuscript project or explore medieval texts, finding translations can be challenging. Many online sources are either copyrighted, poorly usable, or difficult to navigate. In this blog, I’ll list the websites where I prefer to source my texts.
The medieval scribe's eye-skip mistake haped in my project. Read about what it is and how it happens in this blog post.
Celebrating the first anniversary of my bestiary project: Progress, challenges, acknowledgements, and future plans for this illuminated manuscript endeavor.
This blog post covers a brief exploration of the quire and folio marks found in the Aberdeen bestiary. This topic expands upon my post about quire signatures, catchwords and foliation, which I genuinely recommend reading if you want to understand…
