MANUSCRIPT DESIGN & PARCHMENT PREPARATION

Making Quill Pens

• Soaking Quills

• Heating Quills

• Cutting Quills: Cradle Cut

• Finished Quill

Latin Calligraphy

• Practicing Early Gothic Hand

• Practicing Gothic Littera Bastarda Hand

• Vellum Lined, with Calligraphy

• Writing with the Quill

• Another Angle on Writing, and Abbreviating

Design

• Design Transfer and Inking
• Full Inking with Decorated Capitals
• Decorated Capitals (Detail)

GILDING

Making Gesso

• Gesso Supplies

• Mixing Dry Ingredients

• Adding Wet Ingredients

• Gesso Buttons Drying

• Reconstituting Gesso

Applying Gold

• Applying Gesso to the Vellum

• Full Manuscript with Gesso

• Gilded Caps: Adhering Gold to the Gesso

• Gilded Caps: Backing Paper Removed

• Gilded Caps:  Cleared and Lightly Burnished

Making Shell Gold

• Leaf Scraps Collected
• Adding Honey and Salt
• Grinding Gold to Powder
• Decanting Gold with Water

ILLUMINATION

Preparing Eggs for Tempera

• Separating Yolk from White
• Holding Yolk for Piercing
• Removing Yolk from Sac
• Yolk Mixed with Water

Making Paints

• Dry Pigment with Dropper and Knife
• Mixing Pigment Paste
• Adding Yolk to Paste

Color Illumination

• Underpainting with Earthtones
• Comparing with the Colossal Head
• Painting Stone
• Manuscript with Reds
• Manuscript with Color Palette
• Comparing with Bar and Ivy
• Diapering: Ground, Grid, and Detailing
• Detail: Monk
• Detail: Peacock
• Detail: Birds
• Detail: Pillar
• Detail: Antiphonal Section
• Detail: Torn Section
• Completed Latin Manuscript