SCRIBAL ARTS

Anno Societatis LIII (53) and LIV (54) 

Inspired by: Barcelona Haggadah, Folio 50

Inspired by: Master of the Blumenrahmen (After Master ES), Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying), German woodcut manuscript details, c. 1470.

Inspired by: Medieval water clocks - Clepsydra 

Inspired by: Luttrell Psalter, f.45r.  http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_42130_fs001ar

Inspired by: The Jarlabanke Runestones. This runestone (mid-11th century) is located at the causeway known as Jarlabanke's bridge. It is another one of the runestones that he raised in memory of himself while he was alive, and where he declares that he commands all of Täby. It tells that it is specifically made to commemorate the creation of the causeway ("bridge") for the sake of Jarlabanke's soul. 

Inspired by: The logo used for the event recipient created. 

Also embroidered a Norse Apron Panel. 

This scroll was created using pyrography on vellum paper with purple gouache, shell gold, and India ink.

Inspired by: Carved horns - Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol 99, Nov 2018, pp 47-54.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440318304989?dgcid=rss_sd_all

and a Viking-Age Knife from Gotland, Reconstructed by Craig Sitch Viking Knives from the Isand of Gotland Sweden by D. Carlsson (ArkeoDock, 2003) warehamforge.ca

Inspired by: Combat with Sword in Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco The Flower of Battle The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig XV 13, fol 20v; Spoons by Throckmorton;  Throckmorton (from facebook)

Inspiration: The Art of Sword Combat by Joachim Meyer, 1568.

Fighting to Win: The Art of Sword Combat in The Early Modern Period - Medievalists.net 

Inspired by: Lisbon Bible - Decorated micrographic carpet page, Volume 3, folio 184v. This splendid carpet page owes its arresting appeal to the superb micrographic designs occupying its centre, and the gorgeous lacy surface surrounding it. This is probably the most famous and most elaborate micrographic carpet page to have emerged from the Lisbon workshop in its 28 years of activity (1469-1496)

Inspired by: “Rats Rowing” Ste-Geneviève, MS 143, 14th Century

Inspired by: Coram Rege Rolls initial detail, Elizabeth I, Easter 1589, KB 27/1309/2 1

Inspired by: Metropolitan Museum of Art: “Isfandiyar’s Third Course: He Slays a Dragon.” folio 434v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings of Sha Tahmasp c. 1530) 

Inspiration: Award badge and the Midrealm dragon performing the tasks mentioned in the award text.

Inspired by: 10th Century Norse Broach (Trustees of the British Museum) - Trinity College Dublin

Inspired by: A Boke of Gode Cookery: Tacuinum Sanitatis: XXXI. Ricotta (Recota)

Inspired by: Last Judgement in Initial "C" by Lorenzo Monaco, Italy c. 1450 - Met Museum

Scroll: Oak Music Box - Constructed with the instruction/assistance of Baron Aindle.

Music Box Timeline: 

9th C: Baghdad, Iraq -  Banu Musa brothers (Persian brothers) produced a mechanical musical instrument; a hydropowered organ which played interchangeable cylinders with raised pins. Described in their Book of Ingenious Devices

13th C: Flanders, an ingenious bell ringer invents a cylinder with pins which operates cams, which then hit the bells.

1598: Flemish clockmaker Nicholas Vallin produces a wall mounted clock which has a pinned barrel playing on multiple tuned bells mounted in the superstructure. The barrel can be programmed, as the pins can be separately placed in the holes provided on the surface of the barrel.

Music Box Plays - “Hyde Park” from The Dancing Master, by John Playford, London,  c. 1650. Transposed to the key of C and arranged by Baron Aindle O’Diarmada

Inspired by: Late 15th Century Scribe woodcut

Inspired by: A queen with 4 women playing musical instruments, BL Medieval Royal 16G V f.3v

Inspired by: Lessing Archive #16020503

Inspired by: Bavarian herald Joerg Rugenn wearing a tabard of the Coat of arms of Bavaria, around 1510. Austrian National Library, Cod. 2936, Part 2, fol 11v.

Inspired by: Mammen Silver-inlaid Axehead is a Viking, silver, iron decorative artwork created in 970 CE. (Nat’l Museum of Denmark) https://arthistoryproject.com/timeline/middle-ages/viking-age/mammen-silver-inlaid-axehead/

Inspired by: Manuscript SKB (Royal Library Stockholm, Sweden) B74, leaf 91r - the oldest known vernacular manuscript, circa 1250 in Scanian/Danish with the Scanian Law and Scanian Ecclesiastical Law.

Bordering designs from the Skog tapestry -  12thC.

Leaf F91r of SKB B74 discussing crimes of passion.