Looked up my block and realized that I hadn't posted in two years. Need to remedy that.
January, 2024, Mael Eoin mac Echuid's Tyger of the East
Award of the Tyger of the East award for a dear friend.
The Tyger of the East was established April 26 A.S. 37, 2003, by Darius II and Roxane II, and may be awarded by The Crown to the individual who most embodies and personifies the ideals of the East Kingdom.
Words:
Latin:
Dies hominum breves veloci et insperato fine terminantur, quia mors, universitati generis humani ex consuetudine invidens, tempora multorum prevenit, et quos incautos invenit omnino necat et subruit, ita ut, omnium facti inmemores, et de vita periclitari nichil prorsus possint aut ad memoriam reducere, aut eloquio proferre.
Moris itaque prudentium est studia sua, vel opera seu que cumque disponi possunt scripti memorie commendare, quatinus et a modernorum memoria elabi sit impossibile, et successores viriliter teneant et imitentur, quod antecessores suos fecisse in memoriam derelicte scriptorum pagine protestantur.
Nos, autem, Matthias et Æsa feilinn, rex et regina orientalis, precedentium antecessorum industrie nos conformans, notum facimus gitur omnibus, tam futuris quam presentibus, quod valde et magne aestimus nostrum servum Mael Eoin mac Echuid, eum reputans et magnimissum et dignamissum et honestissimum virorum, et per litteras patentes donamus et concedemus ei et agnitionem et status et dignitas tigris orientalis, cum omnibus privilegiis beneficiis usibus libertatibus manubiis levationibus et rebus rectia pertinentia quod ei pertinentia in toto modo.
Volumus et velimud hoc donum instituere et pie et valde et vere, ut praedictus Mael Eoin sit possidere praedictus status in perpetua legitime et placide et sine pertrubatione, et ut declaratio huis doni nostri more humuno non dissoluat, pagine huic in fine nomines noster signavimus et testes veridicos visus et auditus adnotari precepimus.
Hae litteras fortificatae et confirmatae sunt prae nostra curia convocata datum octavo epiphanie dicte tredecem Ianuarii anno societatis quinquaginta octo
English
The brief days of men are ended with swift and unexpected finish, since death habitually envying the whole of human kind, anticipates the times of many, and those it finds incautious it altogether destroys and overthrows, so that unremembered by all, nothing from their life can be proved again or brought to memory or put forth in speech. Thus it is in the custom of wise persons to commend to the memory of writing their studies or works or whatever can be so disposed, so that it is impossible to erase it from the memory of moderns, and their successors may hold it virilely and imitate what their ancestors are testified to have done in the memory of the page of writings left behind.
Therefore, We, Matthias and Æsa feilinn, King and Queen of the East, conforming to the diligence of our ancestors make it be known to all, future as well as present, that We hold our servant Mael Eoin mac Echuid in the greatest and highest of esteem, deeming him the most fit, most worthy, and most honorable of men, and do by these present letters gift and grant unto him the renown, status and estate of a Tyger of the East, with all with all privileges, benefits, usages, liberties, profits, easements and rightful pertinents in and by all ways pertaining thereunto. We will and wish to establish this gift piously, strongly and sincerely, so the above-named Mael Eoin might possess the said status in perpetuity legitimately and peacefully and without disturbance, and, so that the declaration of this our gift may not be dissolved ever by human usage, We have signed our names at the end of this page, and ordered trustworthy witnesses to note what they saw and heard. These letters were fortified and confirmed before Our assembled Court upon the Octave of Epiphany, being 13 January in the fifty-eighth year of the Society.
Words by Alys Mackyntoish
Latin Translation by Alexandre Lerot d’Avignon
Calligraphy and illumination by Nataliia Anastasiia Evgenova
The Tyger of the East was established April 26 A.S. 37, 2003, by Darius II and Roxane II, and may be awarded by The Crown to the individual who most embodies and personifies the ideals of the East Kingdom.
Words:
Latin:
Dies hominum breves veloci et insperato fine terminantur, quia mors, universitati generis humani ex consuetudine invidens, tempora multorum prevenit, et quos incautos invenit omnino necat et subruit, ita ut, omnium facti inmemores, et de vita periclitari nichil prorsus possint aut ad memoriam reducere, aut eloquio proferre.
Moris itaque prudentium est studia sua, vel opera seu que cumque disponi possunt scripti memorie commendare, quatinus et a modernorum memoria elabi sit impossibile, et successores viriliter teneant et imitentur, quod antecessores suos fecisse in memoriam derelicte scriptorum pagine protestantur.
Nos, autem, Matthias et Æsa feilinn, rex et regina orientalis, precedentium antecessorum industrie nos conformans, notum facimus gitur omnibus, tam futuris quam presentibus, quod valde et magne aestimus nostrum servum Mael Eoin mac Echuid, eum reputans et magnimissum et dignamissum et honestissimum virorum, et per litteras patentes donamus et concedemus ei et agnitionem et status et dignitas tigris orientalis, cum omnibus privilegiis beneficiis usibus libertatibus manubiis levationibus et rebus rectia pertinentia quod ei pertinentia in toto modo.
Volumus et velimud hoc donum instituere et pie et valde et vere, ut praedictus Mael Eoin sit possidere praedictus status in perpetua legitime et placide et sine pertrubatione, et ut declaratio huis doni nostri more humuno non dissoluat, pagine huic in fine nomines noster signavimus et testes veridicos visus et auditus adnotari precepimus.
Hae litteras fortificatae et confirmatae sunt prae nostra curia convocata datum octavo epiphanie dicte tredecem Ianuarii anno societatis quinquaginta octo
English
The brief days of men are ended with swift and unexpected finish, since death habitually envying the whole of human kind, anticipates the times of many, and those it finds incautious it altogether destroys and overthrows, so that unremembered by all, nothing from their life can be proved again or brought to memory or put forth in speech. Thus it is in the custom of wise persons to commend to the memory of writing their studies or works or whatever can be so disposed, so that it is impossible to erase it from the memory of moderns, and their successors may hold it virilely and imitate what their ancestors are testified to have done in the memory of the page of writings left behind.
Therefore, We, Matthias and Æsa feilinn, King and Queen of the East, conforming to the diligence of our ancestors make it be known to all, future as well as present, that We hold our servant Mael Eoin mac Echuid in the greatest and highest of esteem, deeming him the most fit, most worthy, and most honorable of men, and do by these present letters gift and grant unto him the renown, status and estate of a Tyger of the East, with all with all privileges, benefits, usages, liberties, profits, easements and rightful pertinents in and by all ways pertaining thereunto. We will and wish to establish this gift piously, strongly and sincerely, so the above-named Mael Eoin might possess the said status in perpetuity legitimately and peacefully and without disturbance, and, so that the declaration of this our gift may not be dissolved ever by human usage, We have signed our names at the end of this page, and ordered trustworthy witnesses to note what they saw and heard. These letters were fortified and confirmed before Our assembled Court upon the Octave of Epiphany, being 13 January in the fifty-eighth year of the Society.
Words by Alys Mackyntoish
Latin Translation by Alexandre Lerot d’Avignon
Calligraphy and illumination by Nataliia Anastasiia Evgenova
DOCUMENTATION
The Aberdeen Bestiary
Folio 8r - Lions, continued. Tigris/ the tiger.
Seemed appropriate for a Tyger of the East.
Folio 8r - Lions, continued. Tigris/ the tiger.
Seemed appropriate for a Tyger of the East.
PROGRESS OF THE ART
Calligraphy first
Next, illumination. Blocking in the colors that I will build on. Used Mosaic gold for the background. Use Holbein goauche for the rest.
Did a period style Tyger of the East badge. Mosaic gold background, Holbein gouache for the painting.
Adding more detail and layering. I referenced the original quite a bit so that I was getting the right feel for the period example.
Final details in the rubricated letters, white work on the frame, the armor, the cloak, the rings being tossed to the tiger, the reins, the horse itself. Making sure that there was balance in the composition. Addition of black highlights in a variety of places, again to emphasize the detail. I kept going back to the original source to make sure that I was getting the layering and the details correct.
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