This was made for Marinus Baronial Birthday in November 2012. First time doing a fancehpants cadel scroll, and I realllly enjoyed it. (It also went really fast!)
My only beef with it is that some of the capitals in the middle section are off (I sorta tweaked as I went and they might not be strictly correct). Also I messed up some grammar in the first sentence. Le oops. That's what I get for combining different scroll texts in my head and then copying them out from memory. >_o
Based on a page from a manuscript belonging to the Duc de Berry. Written by Jean Flamel around 1409.
The rest of the script is basic Drogin bastarda.
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The first time I had ever done an all calig scroll I was still fairly new to the whole scribal thing. I had brought the award scrolls to A&S point and was showing them to the laurel I was working with at the time. This girl walks up and tells me how the scroll would look better if I painted all the boxes. I explained to he that this particular style wasn't supposed to be painted and left it at that. I got called away to marshal and left everything at A&S point. When I come back the same girl has painted half the boxes red, holds it up, and says, "see, doesn't it look so much better."
It was over a decade before I had enough presence to try it again. Even then, the second set of cadel scrolls has red line work, a little dog standing on one and faces popping out of the curves.
I think that can be filed in one of the top scribal horror stories that I have heard. O_O;
But your all-callig scrolls are super awesome (and proper period styles!), so NEENER NEENER to her.
/adds to list of things I'll never get around to