recent scrollwork

[aryanhwy]

The best part about being signet (other than getting all the gossip in advance, in getting to see all the beautiful scrolls produced by the kingdom scribes, arranging for scribes to do scrolls for their friends, making sure people get their long-awaited backlogs...okay, so there's lots of good things about being a signet) is getting to make scrolls for friends. When the queen sent me a court list that included a Sigillum Reginae for an old, dear friend, I put my name down for that one without giving anyone else a chance.

It was given out this weekend (or, it would have been, had not car trouble prevented the recipient from making it to the event!), so I can post it here.

Sigillum Reginae for Guntram von Wolkenstein


The text is based on the first 13 pages of The Paston Letters and reads:

To our right trusty and heartily well-beloved Guntram von Wolkenstein, Master of the Laurel, we greet you well, thanking you as heartily as we can for ourself and especially for that ye do so much for our house and court, which I trust verily ye do rather for the great love that ye deem I have thereto. And forasmuch as we purpose to thank you for your rightful favour showed to us in all matters that toucheth us, we pray that you proudly and humbly bear our sigil, and that in so doing you be long preserved in honour and prosperity. Written at Adamestor, on the 6th day of November, a.s. 45, by your queen

It took two days to complete; I drew out the design on the first day, and did everything else on the second. The design is taken from the Hours of Mary of Guelders, fol. 19v, reproduced on p.78 of John Harthan, Books of Hours and Their Owners. The MS is dated to 1415.

Comments

[thebronwen.livejournal.com]

Your work just keeps getting better and better. I'm so proud of you! I especially love the border - it just speaks to me somehow. Awesome job!

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

When I was looking for something to copy, this border just lept out at me; even though it was so simple, it's distinctive, and the floralness just seemed right for an award given just by the queen.