long weekend
May. 4th, 2010 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aryanhwyFriday was Queen's Day, which is a university holiday. We didn't have any big plans, though I thought Joel and I might go walk through the vrijmarkt on Dapperstraat, since that's always interesting, but that ended up not happening: I spent almost the entire day sitting on the bed watching snooker and going through a stack of articles I'd printed two days earlier to extract any useful tidbits about medieval voting rules and electoral procedures. It was very productive. Saturday was spent similarly, with a break midday to join Joel and Nate getting kebabs for lunch from the market, and then dinner in the evening, after which we went to the Arendsnest (still got home in time to see the end of that semi-final). The goal was to do something similar on Sunday: Joel and Nate left in the morning to Eindhoven, for the start of their three-days biking from Eindhoven to Arnhem (they'll be getting home sometime tonight), and I leave Saturday for the U.S., which means I need to get through all the data I can before then so that Joel can work on it during the week I'm gone, as the paper we're collaborating on is due May 15. I did spend the entire day sitting on the bed watching snooker, but no research got done. Instead, when I could budge a very insistent Slinky from my lap (a lot of times during snooker-watching, she likes to curl up next to me, but occasionally she decides that she needs to be ON the lap, and when she falls asleep on my lap (usually when I'm sitting cross-legged, she'll sleep for about two hours before I finally disturb her), I did some C&I:
From start (that is, writing the text, browsing to find a good exemplar, plotting out the lines, etc.) to finish (whitework is so satisfying), it took me about 9-10 hours I think. I'm very satisfied with this, and I've already picked out elements from three more folios in the same MS to do a companion piece (which I started; I got the calligraphy and the basic painting of the initial done Sunday as well). It was a Sunday well spent; it was horribly cold and windy and rainy out, so it was nice to spend all day at home inside in the warmth. I feel terrible, though, for Joel and Nate; it was rainy again on Monday (though sunny and nice today, though still a bit cold), which means they picked two of the worst days in the last month or so do to cross-country biking. Unfortunately there's no way they could've known this when Nate booked his plane tickets. I hope it didn't ruin things too much for them.
AoA for Mariken van Oostbroek
The initial and side border came from Codex S 1943 fol. 170v and the top and bottom borders came from Codex S 1943 fol. 196v. This is a late 15th C MS.
The hand is (yet another) attempt at Gothic. I'm more happy with it than I have been with other recent attempts.
From start (that is, writing the text, browsing to find a good exemplar, plotting out the lines, etc.) to finish (whitework is so satisfying), it took me about 9-10 hours I think. I'm very satisfied with this, and I've already picked out elements from three more folios in the same MS to do a companion piece (which I started; I got the calligraphy and the basic painting of the initial done Sunday as well). It was a Sunday well spent; it was horribly cold and windy and rainy out, so it was nice to spend all day at home inside in the warmth. I feel terrible, though, for Joel and Nate; it was rainy again on Monday (though sunny and nice today, though still a bit cold), which means they picked two of the worst days in the last month or so do to cross-country biking. Unfortunately there's no way they could've known this when Nate booked his plane tickets. I hope it didn't ruin things too much for them.
