Ductus

Newsletter of the Royal College & Confraternity of Scribes & Illuminators of the Kingdom of Lochac

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Volume 11 Issue 3 September 2011

Greetings all and welcome to the September Ductus.

I would like to congratulate everyone on how well scrolls are going this year. I know that doing original scrolls is making the task much longer but I have been impressed with the number of original scrolls that are being done. In addition many scribes seem to still be doing the GA and AoA scrolls that are coming up on the database. It is wonderful to see that these scrolls are continuing even while the focus is on original scrolls.

Competitions

The people who contributed to the blanks competition last year were;

• Caristiona nic Beathain
• Branwen of Werchesvorde
• Maeve ni Iasachta
• Keridwen the Mouse
• Katherine Alicia of Sarum
• Muirghein ni Ghrainne
• Brain dorcha ua Conaill
• Constanzia Moralez y de Xamora
• Liadan verch Lochac
• Celestrai Ashwood
• Svartr Ormsson
• Tamsyn Northover
• Leonie de Grey
• Madoc ap Gryffith
• Tailtiu of Gortruna
• Tatiiana Kalinin
• Arlette Mortimer
• Riona of Caerleon
• Catherin d'Arc
• Katrijin van Delden
• Madelaine de Bourgogne
• Helen Hartshorne
• Katerina de Brescia
• Phedre de Caravalle
• Kathern Richer
• Alicia the Pastry Chef
• Maragerete Engelhardts
• Lyssa Trygvrrsdottir

Each of these scribes either has, or will receive one of the Scribes tokens for the work that they have done. Congratulations to all of you, your efforts made a huge difference in our backlog and considerably increased the visibility of the College of Scribes over the last year. It was an amazing effort.

Pelican Scrolls

Pelican scrolls are coming to me slowly but surely. There are many assigned that I hope to see by the end of this year. Remember for your scrolls to be considered part of the Pelican Scrolls competition they must be to me before Canterbury Faire in January. 

Change in Wardens

þorfinn is no longer the Warden for the College of Scribes down in Stormhold. He has been Warden for many years and it is now time for him to move on and for other scribes to take up this position. At the moment there is not a Warden for Stormhold. This position will remain vacant until a new Warden takes up the duties. So if anyone is interested in this position could they please contact me about details.

The new Warden for Politarchopolis is Quataryna de Montpelher. I would like to extend a warm welcome to Quataryna and a thank you to her for taking on the position of Warden in Politarchopolis.

Scroll Timings

When scrolls are assigned they are not assigned indefinitely. AA and GA scrolls must be completed within six months. Original Scrolls for Peerages must be completed within 1 year. If a scroll goes over this time an extension must be negotiated with the Provost of Scribes. This extension is not automatic and if the Provost of Scribes does not feel that it is warranted it will not be given.

Currently there are a number of outstanding scrolls that have gone over this time. Those scrolls will be removed from the people who are doing them unless they have already contacted me to request an extension or unless they do contact me and ask for an extension.

It does not matter how far through a scroll a scribe is, if an extension is not granted their scroll will not be accepted by the College of Scribes. All reasonable requests for an extension are granted but continual requests by the same scribe may result in all assignments being removed from that scribe.

Doing an original AA or GA does not automatically mean that the time you are allocated for doing that scroll is extended to 1 year as it would be for other original scrolls. It is expected that you will be able to complete an AA scroll in 6 months. If you decide to do an original AA scroll you will need to complete it within that 6 months.

Seals

The first of the Scribal Seals has been completed and was used for the first time at the recent Rowany Scribal meeting. It is very exciting that these seals have been completed. They are the last part of the new Writs that have been going out to many AA recipients over the last year. It is wonderful to see that they have almost been completed. Thanks go out to Mistress Tigriana for her work on these seals. The one I have currently looks wonderful.

A photo of the seal and of an example green seal will be posted on the blog shortly.

The College of Scribes officers that will be receiving seals as they are finished will include;

• Caristiona nic Beathain- Provost
• Keridwen the Mouse- Upper Warden
• Aeron Lasair- Northern Regions Warden and Verger
• Branwen of Werchesvorde – Western Regions Warden
• Svartr Ormsson- Crescent Isles, Northern Island Warden
• katherine kerr of the Hermitage- Crescent Isles, Southern Island Warden
• Leofwynn Wulfinga- Innilgard Warden
• Maeve ni Iasachta- Rowany Warden
• Quataryna de Montpelher- Politarchopolis Warden
• Madelane de Bourgogne Ynys Fawr Warden

Additional seals will be made for the positions that are currently vacant in this list and also for the positions of Northern Warden and Verger which would normally be separate rolls.

 

Newly Warranted Scribes

There have been a few new scribes who have joined our ranks over the last few months. These new scribes include;

• Bernard
• Corinna
• Dragana Roza
• Elinae of Whitby
• Iarnulfr
• Kazimera
• Maddie
• Pádraig Lowther 

Redoing Scrolls

Due to the natural disasters in some places in Lochac over the last year a call went out for people to redo scrolls for those recipients who have had their previous scrolls damaged. So far one of those scrolls has been completed. The scroll was for Catherine the Friendly, it was a GoA and it was completed by Elinae of Whitby. Thank you to Elinae for that work. I hope to see the others completed over the coming months.

 

Caristiona nic Beathain

Provost of Scribes

provost@lochac.sca.org

Late Scribes Post for August

Greetings,

the scribes have once again been very productive and completed a number of scrolls. Last month there was a drop off and so no scrolls were advertised as completed, however this month more than makes up for that drop off.

Scrolls that have been completed over the last month include;

Cairistiona inghean Raghnaill- OP

Catherine the Friendly- GA

Fionnabhair inghean ui Mheadhra - AA

Gabriel de Beaumont- OP

Kane Greymane- OP

Hrothgar aet Gytingbroc- OP

Miles de Colwell- LOG

Muirghein ni Ghrainne- OL

Muirghein ni Ghrainne- OP

Nathan Blacktower- KSCA

Nathan Blacktower- OP

Nathaniel Mendoza de Guadalajara- AA

Raphael d'Avallon- AA

Waldo Turner- AA

Varndell Lynche- AA

The scribes who have completed these scrolls are;

Arlette Mortimer

Branwen of Werchesvorde

Catherine d’Arc

Celestria Ashwood

Constanzia Moralez y de Zamora

Dragana Roza

Elinae of Whitby

Katerina da Brescia

Keridwen the Mouse

Riona of Caerleon

Tailtíu of Gortrua

Caristiona nic Beathain

Provost of Scribes

Royal Visit, Innilgard.

Greetings all!

Just recently we had the honour of Their Majesties visiting the Barony of Innilgard. During their visit, they passed onto me a Medallion from the Lochac Scribes

I also recieved my Grant of Arms Scroll, thanks to Branwen of Werchesvorde (thanks). Pics can be seen on flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/4806044@N02/55215324/in/set-7215762499052941

Hidden details

I found this picture tonight when I was doing a search for celticly styled pelican images:

copy right Royal Observatory Greenwich

it's from a blog from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and is the jumper from John Harrison's first timekeeper. Which means that it wouldn't be seen once the clock is assembled.

Wow! Is all I can say. It's such a beautiful detail.

Results of the Scribes Competition

Greetings,

a Scribal Competition to help reduce the backlog of scrolls was run over the last nine months from Festival to Canterbury Faire with results to have been announced at Festival AS 45. Unfortunately due to the rain the Competition Results were not announced.

I would like to announce the winners of the competition now these were;

Branwen of Werchesvorde
Maeve ni Iasachta
Aeron Lasair
Keridwen the Mouse
Katherine Alicia of Sarum


Other members of the College of Scribes that took part in this competition and helped to reduce the backlog of scrolls include;
Muirghein ni Ghrainne
Brían dorcha ua Conaill
Constanzia Moralez y de Zamora
Liadan verch Lochac
Celestria Ashwood
Svartr Ormsson
Tamsyn Northover
Leonie de Grey
Madoc ap Gryffith
Tailtiu of Gortruna
Tatiiana Kalinin
Arlette Mortimer
Riona of Caerleon
Catherine d’Arc
Katrijn van Delden
Madelaine de Bourgogne
Gillian Attwood
Katerina de Brescia
Phedre de Caravalle
Kathern Richer
Alicia the Pastry chef
Maragerete Engelhardtz
Lyssa Trygvrrsdottir
Caristiona nic Beathain

For those who would like to see the work that each of these scribes put into reducing the backlog each of the scrolls included in the competition are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/48016044@N02/

Together these scribes completed over 100 scrolls in the nine months from Festival AS 44 for Canterbury Faire AS 45 for the competition and many of these scribes also completed additional peerage scrolls during this time.

Another competition has been started to complete Pelican Scrolls over the next nine months. I look forward to seeing more wonderful work from each of these scribes.

I would like to thank each and everyone of these scribes for the amount of work that they have done over the last year for the College of Scribes and for the Kingdom of Lochac.

Caristiona nic Beathain
Provost of the College of Scribes
Lochac

Ductus

Newsletter of the Royal College & Confraternity of Scribes & Illuminators of the Kingdom of Lochac

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Volume 11 Issue 2 March 2011

Greetings all and welcome extremely late February Ductus.

As you all know we have now finished the AA and scrolls that can be done with Blanks competition. Sorry for the bad name, it just sort of expanded because everyone did such a wonderful job of working through so many scrolls.

Last year we completed well over 100 scrolls. Of that number over 20 of the scrolls completed were original scrolls. This is an amazing effort and probably means more scrolls were completed last year than in any other single year in the history of the College of Scribes. So I would like to commend you all on the huge effort that you have all put in to completing these scrolls.

Competitions

It is now time to judge the competition from last year. Every person is allocated 10 points. Please go and look at the Flickr site https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox see what scrolls you like the most and then allocate your points. You can allocate them in any order and quantity you like but you may not allocate them to yourself.

So if you would like to allocate all your 10 points to one scroll please do so. If you would like to break your points down or allocate them one at a time that is also fine.

When you have decided how you are going to allocate your point please send me an e-mail at provost@lochac.sca.org I will need your name to make sure that no person accidentally doubles up on allocating their points but how you distribute your points will remain confidential.

Anyone who is a scribe is welcome to allocate points. So please if you have been working with a bunch of scribes that are not on the List but have contributed to the College of Scribes please pass on this information so that they can have their say.

If you notice that I have not put your scroll up on the Flickr site, or a scroll that you think should be up on the site please let me know. With so many scrolls being completed this year it would not be unheard of for me to have missed one. I would like all eligible scrolls to be counted in this years competition so if you think a scroll should be there and it is not let me know and I will fix that omission.

Pelican Scrolls

Many of the Pelican's have contacted me with preferences for their scrolls. I have already assigned lots of Pelican scrolls and have more to assign. If you would like a Pelican scroll please let me know I will be delighted to assign you a scroll.

If you are entering the Pelican scroll competition entries are welcome any time from the first day of Festival onwards. That will include any Pelican scrolls that have already been assigned. So all of the people who currently have Pelican scrolls are welcome to enter them in this years Pelican Scroll Competition so long as they arrive with me between the first day of Festival and the first day of the 2012 Canterbury Faire.

There are currently around 20 unassigned Pelican scrolls.

Other Scrolls

Please remember that while our competition is focused on Pelican scrolls this year we still have a lot of other scrolls that need to be completed. These include AA's, GA's and RP scrolls for those whose name and device registrations are still coming through. So if you feel that you are unable to do an original scroll but you would still like to contribute please feel free to ask me for other assignments. I have lots and will welcome all efforts to complete these.

Change in Wardens

With a heavy heart I am announcing the resignation of two Wardens Katherine Alicia of Sarum and Leonie de Grey. Both of these Wardens have held their position for a number of years and have contributed a lot of hard work to the College of Scribes. It is a sad thing to see them leaving as Wardens but I am pleased that this does not mean they are lost to the College.

In Katherine Alicia of Sarum's place will be Aeron Lasair. Aeron is currently one of the Vergers of the College of Scribes so it made sense to roll those two positions into one.

The position of Warden in Politarchopolis is currently vacant. I would like expressions of interest to be sent to me at provost@lochac.sca.org as I would like to make a decision about the new Warden and announce who they are at Festival if possible.

Deputies

All officers in Lochac are supposed to have a drop dead deputy. As the College of Scribe has grown bigger it has become more and more a formal office within the Kingdom of Lochac. For this reason I would like to request that all Wardens confirm that they have a drop dead deputy. I would like to know who the drop dead deputies will be for each Warden by the time your next reports are due.

Reporting

There has recently been some confusion about reporting. Reporting for the Provost of Scribes is set by the Kingdom. The Provost of Scribes must report to the Kingdom Seneschal by;

February 28th, May 31st, August 31st, and November 30th.

This means that I normally put out a request for reports from all Wardens to arrive to me two weeks before those dates. In other words I would like all Wardens to report to me by;

February 15^th, May 15^th, August 15^th, and November 15^th. Could all Wardens please put these dates into their diaries.

If I do not receive a report or if I feel that a report does not give me enough detail I will request additional reports. Continual failure to adequately report is grounds for the Provost of Scribes to remove that Warden from office.

Scroll Timings

When scrolls are assigned they are not assigned indefinitely. AA and GA scrolls must be completed within six months. Original Scrolls for Peerages must be completed within 1 year. If a scroll goes over this time an extension must be negotiated with the Provost of Scribes. This extension is not automatic and if the Provost of Scribes does not feel that it is warranted it will not be given.

Currently there are a number of outstanding scrolls that have gone over this time. Those scrolls will be removed from the people who are doing them unless they have already contacted me to request an extension or unless they do contact me and ask for an extension.

It does not matter how far through a scroll a scribe is, if an extension is not granted their scroll will not be accepted by the College of Scribes. All reasonable requests for an extension are granted but continual requests by the same scribe may result in all assignments being removed from that scribe.

Doing an original AA or GA does not automatically mean that the time you are allocated for doing that scroll is extended to 1 year as it would be for other original scrolls. It is expected that you will be able to complete an AA scroll in 6 months. If you decide to do an original AA scroll you will need to complete it within that 6 months.

Newly Warranted Scribes

As we move into the beginning of even season for the new year lots of new people are starting to show an interest in scribal activities. So far this year we have had a bunch of new scribes joining our ranks from Newcomers events and from various Collegia new scribes include;

• Alannah


• Bronwyn


• Elizabeth Ong


• Erin Matuzic


• Liduina


• Melanie


• Nic Matuzic


• Phillipa Granwal


• Rosamund


• Seamus


• Wesley


• Ynedeye

express an interest in becoming scribes and have started work on their first piece.

• Madeline Kelson- warranted for illumination only

Has become warranted for illumination after finishing her first piece.

• Annabel de Swinburne- warranted for calligraphy and illumination
• Melanie Koehler- warranted for calligraphy and illumination

Have returned to us after a long absences and will be working with us to complete blanks and originals this year.

Bestiary

I was incredibly impressed with the number of entries that went into the Lochac Arts and Sciences competition for 12^th Night.

While completing the most amazing number of scrolls for the College of Scribes this year many of you have still managed to produce an entry for the Lochac Arts and Sciences competition. The entries were of very high quality and took myself and Mistress Muirghein ni Ghrainne a whole day to go through and to judge. We were very impressed with the quality of the work and the excellence of the overall entries.

Winners will be announced at Festival so please keep an eye out for that announcement. Congratulations to all those who entered. I believe a few of those entries will now become Baronial property for some groups and will be continued as the group expands and as more scribes enter the group. I would love to see those same Bestiaries in a number of years to see how they have grown in that time.

Redoing Scrolls

As many of you know earlier this year Lochac was inundated by a number of natural disasters. This has resulted in the lose of houses and property by some of out members. So far I have been approached on behalf of at least three of those members to let me know that they no longer have their scrolls. Each of them were heartbroken that the efforts of our scribes had been lost and that they no longer had the beautiful pieces of work that had once graced their walls.

I would like to be able to reassign those scrolls. So if anyone is interested in doing scrolls for those who have lost their scrolls currently we are looking for people to do scrolls for;

• Catherine the Friendly- AA and GA
• Jacques du Bar sur le Loup- AA
• Rosetta Eizabetta Cortez- instant AA

Alexandra de Santiago has lost a Caid promissory and is waiting for her name and device to be registered when we will negotiate with Caid to take over the production of her scroll.

I believe that at least one family lost their house in Victoria over the Christmas holidays as well. If anyone has details of this family and any lost scrolls that they may have please contact me so that I can put them back on our list of scrolls to be completed.

We have now reached the end of a very long Ductus. Once again thank you to all the scribes that have contributed so much of their time over the last year. You have done an amazing job and the Kingdom recognises the contribution you have put forward.

If anyone feels that some of the scribes in their area deserve specific recognition for the work they have done please let me know. I think it is important that scribes are mentioned for the work they have done and given awards where appropriate.

In this particular issue I would like to thank Branwen of Werchesvorde and Muirghein ni Ghrainne for the continuing amazing amounts of work that they put into the College of Scribes particular through their teaching.

Caristiona nic Beathain

Provost of Scribes

provost@lochac.sca.org

Competition

I have finally managed to track down and get scrolls to most of the people that the scribes have done scrolls for over the last nine months. That means that all of the scrolls that have been done over that period should now be on the Flickr site so that we can now judge our competition.

The way the judging works is- every scroll gets three points, those points go one to each of the people who have done the calligraphy, the illumination and the device. In addition to those three points every person on the scribes list, is a scribe who has contributed over the last 9 months, has 10 points to allocate. You can allocate these in whichever way you see fit. For example you may like to allocate 5 to some amazing illumination on one scroll and then one each to another five scrolls that you feel the calligraphy or device was particularly good on, or you may like to allocate 2 points to five different scrolls. It is totally up to you except that you can not allocate points to your own work.

You will need to e-mail me with the details on how you are going to allocate your 10 points. I need to know your name but your name will then be crossed off my list as having voted and your vote will remain anonymous to everyone aside from myself. I will not keep a record of your particular vote, only that you have voted. All votes will then be recorded just as individual points and allocated to a scroll.

Please let me know if you are voting for the calligraphy, device or illumination on a scroll so that if a scroll was done by multiple people I can allocate it to the person who did the work.

To check out all the scrolls that can be voted upon please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/48016044@N02/sets/72157623871853029/

All scrolls that could have been done by a blank are included in this competition regardless of whether they were done by a blank or not. So an original AA, GoA or County scroll could all have been included.

If there is a scroll not on the Flickr site that you believe should be there please let me know and send a photo of that scroll to me. With so many scrolls coming through this year it was very easy for me to miss taking the occasional photograph. I have tried to make sure that I have copies of any scrolls that I missed taking a photo of but it is possible that I have totally missed some.

All votes need to be in by the 17th of April so that I can collate them and sort them out for Festival.

I look forward to seeing who wins the competition. Good luck to all those people who entered. There will be both a group and an individual winner.

Caristiona nic Beathain
Provost of Scribes
Lochac

Another one!

The Heart Book. Denmark 1550’s.
Thott 1510 4º

The Heart Book is regarded as the oldest Danish ballad manuscript. It is a collection of 83 love ballads compiled in the beginning of the 1550’s in the circle of the Court of King Christian III. Shown above is the beginning of ballad no. 43, Store længsel, du går mig nær (Great Yearning, thou touches me). A later reader – the otherwise unknown Christen Masse – has added some notes, i.a. this pious hope: “gvd ende oc vinde alle mit er lende til en god oc gledelig ende amen” (may god end and turn my misery into a good and happy ending amen).
We do not know who compiled the ballads and instigated the writing of the Heart Book. All ballads except one – no. 66 – have probably been written by the same hand.

19.5 x 15 cm.

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December Scrolls

Greetings.

My apologies. to everyone for getting the list of December completed scrolls out so late.

The scrolls that were completed and put into the December Pegasus were;


Artemisia da Quieto d'Arzenta- GA
Aylwin Greyman- OWL
Branwen verch Lewis ap Thomas- AA
Catherine the Friendly- GA
Hrothgar aet Gytingbroc- GA
Kane Greymane- Vis
Lorcan of River Haven- AA
Lowry ferch Gwenwynwyn ap Llewelyn- GA
Leylii bint Hızır- AA
Margie of Glenmore- LCA
Maud la Leitiere- AA
Rhianwen ni Dhiarmada- Vis
Salaberge de Granson- AA
Serephina le Dauncer- AA
Sorcha inghean ui Cheallaigh- AA
Táriq ibn Jelal ibn Ziyadatallah al-Naysábúrí- GA
Táriq ibn Jelal ibn Ziyadatallah al-Naysábúrí- OWL

The scribes who have completed these scrolls are;


Aeron Lassair
Branwen of Werchesvorde
Caristiona nic Beathain
Catherine d’Arc
Celestria Ashwood
Constanzia Moralez y de Zamora
Katherine Alicia of Sarum
Keridwen the Mouse
Maeve ni Iasachta


Caristiona nic Beathain
Provost of Scribes

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