Long time no see everyone....
I've added a few things to the webpage and made a few updates. The big change is to add the Grant of Arms blank instructions here. It's not complete but I'll add the images and instructions as I get them.
Just in case you weren't aware, the Award of Arms blank instructions are here.
Both links can be found in the Model Book section of the webpage.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
DUCTUS
Newsletter of the Royal College & Confraternity of Scribes & Illuminators of the Kingdom of Lochac
http://www.sca.org.au/mailman/listinfo/scribes
http://lochac.sca.org/scribe/index.htm
http://lochacscribes.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48016044@N02/
Volume 10 Issue 4 September 2010
Greetings all and welcome to the September issue of Ductus.
My apologise that this issue is late. Unfortunately the real world has taken precedence for the last couple of months. That is almost over for the year so hopefully I will be more up to date for the foreseeable future.
Our AoA competition is going extremely well. We have only six remaining AoA's not assigned on my database. I know this is more than the two that we had a while ago but people keep getting their names and devices registered. However the important thing is that we are keeping up so this is wonderful.
Not only have kept going with the AoA's but we have now started work on the GoA blacklog. Mistress Branwen has produced two GoA blanks and I have produced one so we are currently working on getting some of the GoA scrolls completed. As people finish the scrolls they are currently assigned they will either be given additional AoA's or be moved onto GoA's depending on their experience, abilities and willingness.
Old Scrolls
Of the scrolls that were placed in Ductus in June to be assigned because they have been on the backlog for so long the three scrolls that have been assigned are:
Eric Ravn KSCA Stephan & Niobe (West) 30/04/1994
Kane Greymane OP Valgard & Megan (West) 27/08/1994
Muirghein ni Ghrainne GA Fabian & Cyneswith (West) 9/04/1995
Thank you to those who have taken on these scrolls. I look forward to seeing them completed.
At this stage I will not be asking anyone else to take on assignments other than the AoA's, GoA's and RP scrolls that are part of the competition.
Competitions
Our competition ends at Canterbury Faire, on the 29th of January and we still have close to 50 scrolls to assign and many more to complete so I would like to encourage everyone to keep working.
Once the AoA scroll competition is completed we will be starting the Pelican Scroll drive. This will officially take off as of Festival 2011 but I would like to encourage people to get a head start. This time I will take Pelican scrolls that are completed later than Festival, but they do not need to be started later than Festival to be part of the competition.
Missing Scroll
A scroll was done for Milborough Aldaway in 2004 by Keridwen the Mouse. The scroll is listed in the database as having been given out but was never received by the recipient. If anyone has any idea where this scroll may be can you please contact me as it has a home to go to.
Newly Warranted Scribes
A number of recent scribes have sent me their first piece of work so that they can be warranted to produce work for the College. I would like to congratulate;
Alessandra de Florenza illumination only
Arlette Mortimer illumination only
Catherine d’Arc calligraphy and illumination
Celestria Ashwood calligraphy and illumination
katherine kerr calligraphy and illumination
Katherne Richer calligraphy and illumination
Iuliana Morosini illumination only
Margarete Engelhardtz calligraphy and illumination
Tatiiana Kalinin calligraphy and illumination
As you can see we are fast growing the College of Scribes with new members. This is wonderful to see.
Awards for Scribes
I would like to congratulate Katherine Alicia of Sarum for her admittance to the Order of the Silver Pelican for her work in the Scribal arts both as a teacher and as one of our most prolific scribes. Katherine has done a huge amount of work this year helping others get started and producing scrolls
Writs
The first of the new Writs have gone out and have been well received by both their Majesties and those who have received them. We have still not obtained a scribes seal although we are currently in the process of sorting out quotes and hopefully getting the work done. I hope that this will be done relatively soon. In the mean time the Writs are going out with the Kingdom seal done in green. This seems to be working well.
County and Duchy Scrolls
After having discussed options with many of the scribes over the Scribal list it seems that the preferred option is to have a scroll for the K&Q done by the end of their Reign as either a blank or an original, depending on what the scribe prefers. For those who reign and do not have a registered name and device it seems that the consensus is that we give them a Writ similar in style to the AoA Writs that are given out in their Reign.
If there are any further comments on this I would like them to be either sent to me or put up on the list. The the big question is, do we get this ready for the current Reign or do we wait for the one after it, remembering that neither of their current Majesties have a registered name and device.
Caristiona nic Beathain
Provost of Scribes
provost@lochac.sca.org
http://www.sca.org.au/mailman/listinfo/scribes
http://lochac.sca.org/scribe/index.htm
http://lochacscribes.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48016044@N02/
Volume 10 Issue 4 September 2010
Greetings all and welcome to the September issue of Ductus.
My apologise that this issue is late. Unfortunately the real world has taken precedence for the last couple of months. That is almost over for the year so hopefully I will be more up to date for the foreseeable future.
Our AoA competition is going extremely well. We have only six remaining AoA's not assigned on my database. I know this is more than the two that we had a while ago but people keep getting their names and devices registered. However the important thing is that we are keeping up so this is wonderful.
Not only have kept going with the AoA's but we have now started work on the GoA blacklog. Mistress Branwen has produced two GoA blanks and I have produced one so we are currently working on getting some of the GoA scrolls completed. As people finish the scrolls they are currently assigned they will either be given additional AoA's or be moved onto GoA's depending on their experience, abilities and willingness.
Old Scrolls
Of the scrolls that were placed in Ductus in June to be assigned because they have been on the backlog for so long the three scrolls that have been assigned are:
Eric Ravn KSCA Stephan & Niobe (West) 30/04/1994
Kane Greymane OP Valgard & Megan (West) 27/08/1994
Muirghein ni Ghrainne GA Fabian & Cyneswith (West) 9/04/1995
Thank you to those who have taken on these scrolls. I look forward to seeing them completed.
At this stage I will not be asking anyone else to take on assignments other than the AoA's, GoA's and RP scrolls that are part of the competition.
Competitions
Our competition ends at Canterbury Faire, on the 29th of January and we still have close to 50 scrolls to assign and many more to complete so I would like to encourage everyone to keep working.
Once the AoA scroll competition is completed we will be starting the Pelican Scroll drive. This will officially take off as of Festival 2011 but I would like to encourage people to get a head start. This time I will take Pelican scrolls that are completed later than Festival, but they do not need to be started later than Festival to be part of the competition.
Missing Scroll
A scroll was done for Milborough Aldaway in 2004 by Keridwen the Mouse. The scroll is listed in the database as having been given out but was never received by the recipient. If anyone has any idea where this scroll may be can you please contact me as it has a home to go to.
Newly Warranted Scribes
A number of recent scribes have sent me their first piece of work so that they can be warranted to produce work for the College. I would like to congratulate;
Alessandra de Florenza illumination only
Arlette Mortimer illumination only
Catherine d’Arc calligraphy and illumination
Celestria Ashwood calligraphy and illumination
katherine kerr calligraphy and illumination
Katherne Richer calligraphy and illumination
Iuliana Morosini illumination only
Margarete Engelhardtz calligraphy and illumination
Tatiiana Kalinin calligraphy and illumination
As you can see we are fast growing the College of Scribes with new members. This is wonderful to see.
Awards for Scribes
I would like to congratulate Katherine Alicia of Sarum for her admittance to the Order of the Silver Pelican for her work in the Scribal arts both as a teacher and as one of our most prolific scribes. Katherine has done a huge amount of work this year helping others get started and producing scrolls
Writs
The first of the new Writs have gone out and have been well received by both their Majesties and those who have received them. We have still not obtained a scribes seal although we are currently in the process of sorting out quotes and hopefully getting the work done. I hope that this will be done relatively soon. In the mean time the Writs are going out with the Kingdom seal done in green. This seems to be working well.
County and Duchy Scrolls
After having discussed options with many of the scribes over the Scribal list it seems that the preferred option is to have a scroll for the K&Q done by the end of their Reign as either a blank or an original, depending on what the scribe prefers. For those who reign and do not have a registered name and device it seems that the consensus is that we give them a Writ similar in style to the AoA Writs that are given out in their Reign.
If there are any further comments on this I would like them to be either sent to me or put up on the list. The the big question is, do we get this ready for the current Reign or do we wait for the one after it, remembering that neither of their current Majesties have a registered name and device.
Caristiona nic Beathain
Provost of Scribes
provost@lochac.sca.org
Luttrell Psalter
Well it has been a while since anyone posted anything. I have been working very hard at getting my Masters finished but this doesn't mean that I have not done any scribal work while I have been studying.
One scroll I have finished is a Laurel scroll based on the Luttrell Psalter. This is a rather amazing book that shows lots of small scenes of country life as well as a huge number of weird and wonderful animal/ monster type things.
As I was researching for the scroll I came across a set of YouTube clips that cover a documentary on the Luttrell Psalter. So here is a copy of the scroll I have been working on and here is the documentary that I watched. It is only about 30-40 minutes if you watch the whole thing and it is well worth it. There are a couple of others to watch once you have watched this first one but the links should come up I hope at the end of this one.
Caristiona
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Writs- the Beginning
Hi everyone,
as you know Their Royal Highnesses step up this coming weekend. At the same time we will move on from the Instant AoA system to the new Writ system.
Due to some problems with delivery of equipment the new Scribal seals are not quite ready for this change over, so until we get the proper Scribal Seal we are using the Kingdom seal with the green wax.
The first Writ has been designed and the first Writs in general have been made up and sent to Ildhafn for the Coronation of their Majesties King Edmond and Queen Leonore. At this stage only 12 of these Writs have been made up but as we get the Seals made the pdf's will go to all the Wardens and new Writs can be made up when needed.
The first Lochac Writs getting folded and ready for being sent out.
as you know Their Royal Highnesses step up this coming weekend. At the same time we will move on from the Instant AoA system to the new Writ system.
Due to some problems with delivery of equipment the new Scribal seals are not quite ready for this change over, so until we get the proper Scribal Seal we are using the Kingdom seal with the green wax.
The first Writ has been designed and the first Writs in general have been made up and sent to Ildhafn for the Coronation of their Majesties King Edmond and Queen Leonore. At this stage only 12 of these Writs have been made up but as we get the Seals made the pdf's will go to all the Wardens and new Writs can be made up when needed.
The first Lochac Writs getting folded and ready for being sent out.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Have you seen this scroll? - Milborough Aldaway
Cairistiona recently painted Ulfrikr's scroll and when he came over to pick it up, asked when his wife, Milborough, might get hers. As you can see, that scroll was completed some time ago and is listed in the database as 'given out'. This is a colour photocopy of the scroll I painted in 2004.We are now asking around to see where it has gone. Chances are that it didn't leave the Rowany area, but so long ago, who can tell. It might have gone to Rio for all we know. Most likely is that someone collected it for her and forgot to pass it on.
If you have any info, let us know. Thanks heaps.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Heart-shaped book
Caspar Meuser (1550-1593) was an apprentice of Jakob Krause, serving from 1574 as his successor in the court bindery. He used the panels and stamps designed by Krause, but evolved his own style, characterized by profuse vinework. This heart-shaped prayer book, designed for Anna, the wife of Elector Augustus, is a particularly fine example of his artistry.
Betbüchlein ür allerlei Anliegen (Small Prayer Book for All Occasions) Ca. 1580, cover Gilt-embossed leathe
Thursday, June 10, 2010
D U C T U S
Newsletter of the Royal College & Confraternity of Scribes & Illuminators of the Kingdom of Lochac
http://www.sca.org.au/mailman/listinfo/scribes
http://www.sca.org.au/scribe/
http://lochacscribes.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48016044@N02/
Volume 10 Issue 3 June 2010
Greetings all and welcome to the June issue of Ductus.
We have started the AoA competition with a bang with close to 20 of the AoA's making up our backlog completed and delivered and all of the Caid AoA's now completed and mostly delivered. At this rate we will have finished all the current AoA backlog by around October. When this happens the competition will continue as we work on blanks for Grants and for Royal scrolls. I have been hugely impressed with the work that everyone has put into reducing the backlog and encourage it to continue.
Old Scrolls
Although we are well on the way to getting rid of the AoA backlog there are many Peerage and Grant scrolls that need to be completed. Some of these have now been sitting on our backlog for a very long time. I am going to put out a list of the top five oldest scrolls that need to be completed each Ductus and would like to ask for volunteers to completed these scrolls.
The current oldest scrolls on the CoS backlog belong to;
Eric Ravn KSCA Stephan & Niobe (West) 30/04/1994
Kane Greymane OP Valgard & Megan (West) 27/08/1994
Eleanor Lyttellhayles OL John & Gabriel (West) 28/08/1994
Sven the Stormdriven OP John & Gabriel (West) 28/08/1994
Muirghein ni Ghrainne GA Fabian & Cyneswith (West) 9/04/1995
If anyone would like to be assigned one of these scrolls please contact me so that I can get further details to you and confirm the assignment.
Completed Scrolls
After some considerable searching the number of scrolls sitting in my files with no home as been reduced to two. These are Aulay Leod and one that was not on the previous list- Karl Krigerhelm. If anyone has contact details for these two gentles could they please let me know.
Thank you to all of those who helped me to find all of the other recipients.
If you know of any current details for either of these Good Gentles could you please let me know so that I can get their scrolls to them as soon as possible. Photographs of all of these scrolls have been placed on the Lochac Scribes Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/48016044@N02/
Newly Warranted Scribes
A number of recent scribes have sent me their first piece of work so that they can be warranted to produce work for the College. I would like to congratulate;
Katrijn van Delden
Maihread of Braeside
Leylii bint Hizir (calligraphy only at this stage)
Anna von Freiberg
Awards for Scribes
The amount of work done by many scribes has generated a lot of interest in scribal works in the SCA recently. As a result a few scribes have received awards for the work that they have done to promote the scribal arts as a service for the Kingdom.
I would like to congratulate Keridwen the Mouse, Maeve ní Iasachta and Aeron Lassair for their Silver Pegasus which confers a Grant of Arms. Each of these scribes was instrumental in completing the Crescent Isles Caid AoA's.
Due to a misunderstanding in the scribal processes Gentles from the Cresent Isles had never received any of their AoA's. After extensive negotiations with Caid it was decided that a bunch of Rowany scribes would take on the job of designing blanks and completing all of the Crescent Isles, Caid, AoA and AoA level award backlog. These three scribes were instrumental in this process. What was particularly impressive is that they took on this job while at the same time working towards reducing the Lochac backlog. These scribes have each also completed AoA's and originals for Lochac while working on the Caid scrolls. This was a huge undertaking and the award was richly deserved by each of these scribes.
I would also like to congratulate Madoc ap Gryffith. Madoc has recently received his AoA. After having been in the SCA for over 20 years Madoc has finally settled in one place long enough to get his AoA. Madoc has done extensive work for the CoS over the last year, he has contributed to getting the CoS ready for the AoA competition and to building up the CoS in Ynys Fawr. Madoc's AoA is also well deserved.
I would also like to congratulate Mistress katherine kerr. She will be elevated to the order of the Laurel at Canterbury Faire for her work in “commonplace books to educate the populace in items of
suitable knowledge; broadsheets to announce the results of a Crown Tournament; collections of poetry and prose to record our doings; certain chapbooks, scurrilous though they may be, and so forth.” katherine has also contributed to many of the recent works of the CoS with her research into seals and their attachments and with her Writ prototypes.
Writs
The new Writs will be coming out next Reign. Currently negotiations are under way for the completion of the seals that will be used by the Wardens to seal the Writs. It is hoped that these will be available to all Wardens before Midwinter Crown.
Negotiations are under way to find out what the preferences of Their Royal Highnesses are regarding the hand and style of the first Writs. Once this has been completed a call will go out for all scribes who would like to contribute to do a Writ in the hand favoured by Their Royal Highnesses, they will then be able to choose which one they would like to use for their Reign. The blank for this Writ will then be passed out to all Wardens so that Their Royal Highnesses can have access to it at any location they may need it. The seals will also be provided so that Writs can be sealed anywhere hopefully making the process a lot easier for all future Royalty and scribes.
Blog
I would like to say how impressed I am with the activity on the blog. My apologise for not having published much on their myself recently. It has been wonderful to see how much work others are doing around the Kingdom. This has been a useful resource for many. I hope to see work continuing to be put up on the blog and hope to put a few of my own posts up shortly.
Caristiona nic Beathain
Provost of Scribes
provost@lochac.sca.org
http://www.sca.org.au/mailman/listinfo/scribes
http://www.sca.org.au/scribe/
http://lochacscribes.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48016044@N02/
Volume 10 Issue 3 June 2010
Greetings all and welcome to the June issue of Ductus.
We have started the AoA competition with a bang with close to 20 of the AoA's making up our backlog completed and delivered and all of the Caid AoA's now completed and mostly delivered. At this rate we will have finished all the current AoA backlog by around October. When this happens the competition will continue as we work on blanks for Grants and for Royal scrolls. I have been hugely impressed with the work that everyone has put into reducing the backlog and encourage it to continue.
Old Scrolls
Although we are well on the way to getting rid of the AoA backlog there are many Peerage and Grant scrolls that need to be completed. Some of these have now been sitting on our backlog for a very long time. I am going to put out a list of the top five oldest scrolls that need to be completed each Ductus and would like to ask for volunteers to completed these scrolls.
The current oldest scrolls on the CoS backlog belong to;
Eric Ravn KSCA Stephan & Niobe (West) 30/04/1994
Kane Greymane OP Valgard & Megan (West) 27/08/1994
Eleanor Lyttellhayles OL John & Gabriel (West) 28/08/1994
Sven the Stormdriven OP John & Gabriel (West) 28/08/1994
Muirghein ni Ghrainne GA Fabian & Cyneswith (West) 9/04/1995
If anyone would like to be assigned one of these scrolls please contact me so that I can get further details to you and confirm the assignment.
Completed Scrolls
After some considerable searching the number of scrolls sitting in my files with no home as been reduced to two. These are Aulay Leod and one that was not on the previous list- Karl Krigerhelm. If anyone has contact details for these two gentles could they please let me know.
Thank you to all of those who helped me to find all of the other recipients.
If you know of any current details for either of these Good Gentles could you please let me know so that I can get their scrolls to them as soon as possible. Photographs of all of these scrolls have been placed on the Lochac Scribes Flickr site at http://www.flickr.com/photos/48016044@N02/
Newly Warranted Scribes
A number of recent scribes have sent me their first piece of work so that they can be warranted to produce work for the College. I would like to congratulate;
Katrijn van Delden
Maihread of Braeside
Leylii bint Hizir (calligraphy only at this stage)
Anna von Freiberg
Awards for Scribes
The amount of work done by many scribes has generated a lot of interest in scribal works in the SCA recently. As a result a few scribes have received awards for the work that they have done to promote the scribal arts as a service for the Kingdom.
I would like to congratulate Keridwen the Mouse, Maeve ní Iasachta and Aeron Lassair for their Silver Pegasus which confers a Grant of Arms. Each of these scribes was instrumental in completing the Crescent Isles Caid AoA's.
Due to a misunderstanding in the scribal processes Gentles from the Cresent Isles had never received any of their AoA's. After extensive negotiations with Caid it was decided that a bunch of Rowany scribes would take on the job of designing blanks and completing all of the Crescent Isles, Caid, AoA and AoA level award backlog. These three scribes were instrumental in this process. What was particularly impressive is that they took on this job while at the same time working towards reducing the Lochac backlog. These scribes have each also completed AoA's and originals for Lochac while working on the Caid scrolls. This was a huge undertaking and the award was richly deserved by each of these scribes.
I would also like to congratulate Madoc ap Gryffith. Madoc has recently received his AoA. After having been in the SCA for over 20 years Madoc has finally settled in one place long enough to get his AoA. Madoc has done extensive work for the CoS over the last year, he has contributed to getting the CoS ready for the AoA competition and to building up the CoS in Ynys Fawr. Madoc's AoA is also well deserved.
I would also like to congratulate Mistress katherine kerr. She will be elevated to the order of the Laurel at Canterbury Faire for her work in “commonplace books to educate the populace in items of
suitable knowledge; broadsheets to announce the results of a Crown Tournament; collections of poetry and prose to record our doings; certain chapbooks, scurrilous though they may be, and so forth.” katherine has also contributed to many of the recent works of the CoS with her research into seals and their attachments and with her Writ prototypes.
Writs
The new Writs will be coming out next Reign. Currently negotiations are under way for the completion of the seals that will be used by the Wardens to seal the Writs. It is hoped that these will be available to all Wardens before Midwinter Crown.
Negotiations are under way to find out what the preferences of Their Royal Highnesses are regarding the hand and style of the first Writs. Once this has been completed a call will go out for all scribes who would like to contribute to do a Writ in the hand favoured by Their Royal Highnesses, they will then be able to choose which one they would like to use for their Reign. The blank for this Writ will then be passed out to all Wardens so that Their Royal Highnesses can have access to it at any location they may need it. The seals will also be provided so that Writs can be sealed anywhere hopefully making the process a lot easier for all future Royalty and scribes.
Blog
I would like to say how impressed I am with the activity on the blog. My apologise for not having published much on their myself recently. It has been wonderful to see how much work others are doing around the Kingdom. This has been a useful resource for many. I hope to see work continuing to be put up on the blog and hope to put a few of my own posts up shortly.
Caristiona nic Beathain
Provost of Scribes
provost@lochac.sca.org
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