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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2822920, member: 83956"]Excellent paleography info. I took paleography at the University of Illinois as a graduate student. Our final exam, essentially, was to adopt a rare book from the special collections and determine its date and provenance. Fortunately, I chose a ms. late enough to be written on paper, and the paper had datable watermarks. ca. 1473. Erfurt, Germany. Carthusian monastery.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I teach paleography a bit in my classes. But when I have a really dedicated medieval class, we actually make a medieval manuscript using period methods (except creating inks--I'm working on that one). We get an entire goatskin vellum prepared for calligraphy from <a href="https://www.pergamena.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pergamena.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pergamena.net/</a> . Then we cut goosefeather quills, prick and rule the vellum, and each class group chooses a text, and off they go. Below are a few pictures of one of the better quires. A medieval calendar. The hand is a bit too thick to be authentic, but these undergraduate students with no particular artistic training did a good job. It's hard work, but they certainly learn more this way than from a textbook or mere lecture.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]663249[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]663250[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2822920, member: 83956"]Excellent paleography info. I took paleography at the University of Illinois as a graduate student. Our final exam, essentially, was to adopt a rare book from the special collections and determine its date and provenance. Fortunately, I chose a ms. late enough to be written on paper, and the paper had datable watermarks. ca. 1473. Erfurt, Germany. Carthusian monastery. Today I teach paleography a bit in my classes. But when I have a really dedicated medieval class, we actually make a medieval manuscript using period methods (except creating inks--I'm working on that one). We get an entire goatskin vellum prepared for calligraphy from [url]https://www.pergamena.net/[/url] . Then we cut goosefeather quills, prick and rule the vellum, and each class group chooses a text, and off they go. Below are a few pictures of one of the better quires. A medieval calendar. The hand is a bit too thick to be authentic, but these undergraduate students with no particular artistic training did a good job. It's hard work, but they certainly learn more this way than from a textbook or mere lecture. [ATTACH=full]663249[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]663250[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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