Burdened Tyger scroll
for Lady Johanna le Mercer
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By His Lordship François Thibault,
Oct. 2001 to June 2003 (our twins were born in January 2002...). My
seventeenth scroll.
Text
Our Kingdom is rich in excellent festivities, and well do We
know that they depend upon the efforts of many. Our recent Twelfth
Night celebration, held in Nordenhalle this thirteenth day of
January past, was outstanding, and no one could hope to
name all those who made it a reality.
Yet
do We think it meet to honor certain of Our Subjects whose work
was especially noteworthy. Thus do We, Andreas and Isabella, Rex et
Regina Orientales, award the Order of the Burdened Tyger to Lady
Johanna le Mercer, for her work in running the gaming. Done by Our
Hands, this third day of February, Anno Societatis XXXV, at Carolingia
Celebrates the Arts, in Our Barony of Carolingia.
Construction notes
Sparser than usual this time; I didn't keep notes on all the colors
I used.
Calligraphy
- Hand
- Taken from the Isabella Breviary (British Library, Additional MS
18851; I used the Backhouse reproduction, ISBN 0-7123-0269-7, which I
will refer to as BIB).
- Ink
- Winsor & Newton Black India Ink
- Nibs
- Main text: 3/4 mm Brause. Capital: 3 mm Brause.
- Spacing
- 4 mm minim height, 8 mm spacing between baselines. Capital is 3.2
cm square.
Illumination
- Sources
- The layout is taken from the Isabella Breviary, ff. 184v-185
(reproduced on p. 35 of BIB). The flowers in the borders are mostly
from f. 173, I think.
- The scene on the left-hand page is based primarily on the scene of
angels of the "new song" singing to David and his musicians of the
"old song", from the Isabella Breviary (f. 164). I changed the scene
so that the musicians were instead playing games (to honor Lady
Johanna's work running the gaming), and, instead of angels, we have a
dove, representing Queen Isabella (according to Baron Sir Fum, who
used the imagery in the song I wrote out
for him).
The servant pouring wine is from the Marriage
at Cana scene from the Saluces Hours, (Add. MS 27697, f. 49,
reproduced on p. 55 of Backhouse, Books of Hours, ISBN
0-7123-0052-X). This is the third time now I've used this figure.
Misc
- Paper
- Aquarelle Arches Hot Press, 12" by 16".
- Margins
- Roughly 1" on each side; gutter is 1". "Roughly" because the
paper is actually a little larger than 12" by 16". The overall size
of the actual content is 10"x14".
Mistakes
An oversight that I later decided was the Right Thing:
I left out the whitework on the vines on the right page. Looking at
it again, I decided this was better, because this scroll has bolder
colors than the
previous scroll I did
in this style, and the delicacy of the whitework would be misplaced.
On this scroll, I went back to inking in the lines of the drawing
before painting. It comes out crisper this way...but maybe it would
be better to try shading instead.