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stellamaris
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Posted: March 27 2012 at 8:03am \| IP Logged

Thanks, again! I have a bunch of older calligraphy books in Virginia, so when I head down there I'll check out my "collection". The Eleanor Winters book does look nice!

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Posted: March 20 2013 at 12:37pm \| IP Logged

I had to share this photo of cat paw prints on manuscripts, which I originally found on Father Z's Blog. This post has more about the cats and mice and manuscripts.

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A few more books to recommend regarding Illuminated Manuscripts:

The Book of Hours with a Historical Survey and Commentary by John Harthan, copyright 1977. Out of print, the used copies aren't too expensive. This is not a children's text, but the illustrations are sumptuous, most full page. Looking it over, it is tempting to think of framing them. So gorgeous, and I find real-life examples really inspire my boys to try and imitate. They were also looking for examples that inspired Marguerite's book. It is an oversized (coffee table style) and thick book.

Bibles and Bestiaries: A Guide to Illuminated Manuscripts by Elizabeth B. Wilson. This is more recent, 1994. It's smaller, and the images are varied, but not as big as in above.

Illuminated Manuscripts by Janice Anderson, copyright 1999. This book is another oversized, not as thick as the first book. It covers many more centuries and examples of illuminated manuscripts, not just the Books of Hours.

And after seeing such inspiration, and nice "how-to" book is The Bible of Illuminated Letters: A Treasury of Decorative Calligraphy edited by Margaret Morgan. This book covers tools and techniques, and different alphabet styles including Celtic, Ottonian, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance White vine and Renaissance neo-Classical, and then contemporary examples. It's not necessarily a beginning calligrapher book nor a children's book, but it's well-detailed steps and an intermediate calligrapher could follow.

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That is so cool. Sending to all my catlover friends.

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