Much as I have tried to not have the Signet job take over my art life, well, here it is in all it's glory. I haven't posted since October of 2017, and it is now June of 2019. Okay, then. Let's catch up.
From present backwards into time here we go.
For a dear friend, I made a Silver Rapier scroll for his elevation given on June 8, 2019. Matthew Miller is the nom de plume of Ysmay that she uses for fencing. I went straight to our good friend George Silver for resource material and the play on words was for fun with a very Italian Queen and a very English subject.
The words are as follows:
O that men for their defence would but give their mind to practice the true fight indeed and learn to bear true British wards for their defence,and that those imperfect Italian devices with rapier and poniard would be clean cast aside save for the protection of Us and Our persons, King Ozurr and Queen Fortune, most giving, loving and trusting of Their subject Matthew Miller, though he be English, do say this day that therefore with the zealous and unfeigned love that We bear for his true knowledge of this noble science and the excellence of the rapier fight, do we induct Matthew Miller into the Order of the Silver Rapier on this eighth day of June, A.S. Fifty four at our Southern Region War Camp in our Barony of Carillion.
From George Silver’s Paradoxes of Defense
Words, calligraphy and illumination by Nataliia Anastasiia Evgenova
Illumination done in pen and ink on opaline vellum, which is a vegetable composite to replicate animal skin vellum.
From present backwards into time here we go.
For a dear friend, I made a Silver Rapier scroll for his elevation given on June 8, 2019. Matthew Miller is the nom de plume of Ysmay that she uses for fencing. I went straight to our good friend George Silver for resource material and the play on words was for fun with a very Italian Queen and a very English subject.
The words are as follows:
O that men for their defence would but give their mind to practice the true fight indeed and learn to bear true British wards for their defence,and that those imperfect Italian devices with rapier and poniard would be clean cast aside save for the protection of Us and Our persons, King Ozurr and Queen Fortune, most giving, loving and trusting of Their subject Matthew Miller, though he be English, do say this day that therefore with the zealous and unfeigned love that We bear for his true knowledge of this noble science and the excellence of the rapier fight, do we induct Matthew Miller into the Order of the Silver Rapier on this eighth day of June, A.S. Fifty four at our Southern Region War Camp in our Barony of Carillion.
From George Silver’s Paradoxes of Defense
Words, calligraphy and illumination by Nataliia Anastasiia Evgenova
Illumination done in pen and ink on opaline vellum, which is a vegetable composite to replicate animal skin vellum.
Prior to that I made a scroll for another fencing, Midir, who is at our fencing practice. This was given out at Balfar's Challenge in April of 2019.
Silver Rapier for Midir: Berāt in the form of a mülk (a land grant).
This is the command of the noble, exalted, lofty sultinic sign and the illustrious, world-conquering khakanic tuğra… may it be effective through Divine aid and Eternal protection! Heed the mighty words of the Sultan Ozur and Sultana Fortune: We have commanded that Our warrior, Midir of Carolingia, having pleased us on the tournament field with the skill of his sword, be inducted into the Order of the Silver Rapier, and be granted a plot of land in Quinitavia, wooded and fertile with large stones. This command, thus given in writing, must therefore be enacted before the sun has set on this day, the 27th of April in the 53rd year of the Society, from Our Dīvān at Balfar’s Challenge.
Words by Marguerite inghin Lachlainn
Calligraphy and Illumination by Nataliia Anastasiia Evgenova
Research definitely Marguerite.
I looked over several Berāts to get the feel for them and there was one beautiful one that had the lettering glide along the page from the source material that Marguerite provided for me. Nadir, Ayşegül, Osmanli Padişah Fermanlari/Imperial Ottoman Fermans, The Hand Press Limited, London 1986, ISBN: 0951168010.
Format Notes:
http://www.thepenmightier.com/2019/01/ideas-for-ottoman-scroll-texts.html
The top illumination represented the Sultan's sigil, so I looped the swords in there, as well as ..............
...............the initials of the Royalty giving the scroll, Ozurr and Fortune!
A scroll for our beloved Zsuzsy done in pencil on pergamenata with Higgins eternal ink for the words. I thought that Zsu would like a portrait and I worked in one of her hanging earrings that she loves. This was done for East Kingdom Fifty Year in June of 2018.
There was a writ for a Laurel for Raziya that I was able to do. This was a gigantic leap for me as calligraphy is not my gig, but for Raziya, I'd do it. December, 2017. Based on calligraphy in the Mira Calligraphiae monumenta.
Silver Brooch for Antoni for his metal work. A portrait that I snagged off of the devil of all sources, Facebook, and some nice pencil work, and voila! I know that I did do the calligraphy but don't have a picture of it. Drat. Given in October of 2017.
More to come as I find more. Share yours!
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