This category groups together all blog posts intended to help readers with their own writing and/or painting projects.
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…
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.
