SCRIBE like a GRAPHIC DESIGNER

learn a handful of basic design principles that period scribes also used, and let them guide you toward more beautiful and effective scrollwork

FURTHER READING:

De Hamel, C., 2021, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, London.
Brown, M., 2018, Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts, Los Angeles, CA.
Half Full, Half Empty: The Peculiar Medieval Page

MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDED:

Peter Lombard’s gloss on the Psalms
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Canterbury

Gospels of St Henry the Lion
mid-late 12th century
Germany

Hours of Peter II
1455–57
St Michael and Mont Saint-Michel

Lancelot du Lac
1286
written by Arnulphus de Kayo
Amiens and Cambrai or Thérouanne
Shelfmark: Bonn UB 526

Herbal
c. 1070-1100
St. Augustine’s abbey, Canterbury

Medizinische Sammelhandschrift
(medical composite manuscript)
c1300
Paris, France