Wednesday, July 9, 2025

"Quant de lais...

...faire m'entremet, ne voil ublier Bisclavret" -- the first two lines of the lai.  Marie tells us that while she is making lais, she must not forget the one about Bisclavret, the werewolf; and, not coincidentally, reminds us that we should not forget her, the poet.

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One of my early efforts was collecting capital letters:

A page from my calligraphy notebook...

which became this:

Another notebook page...

Lombardic (more or less) capitals inspired by pages such as this one from the Dijon Bible at the Bibliothèque Municipale:


Folio 6r evolved from there.



The illustration (the miniature, to be correct) is from the entry for Wolf in the Rochester Bestiary.  This page was a trial of Canson Ingres paper in Oyster, which, I discovered later, is no longer available, and of gilding.

(Still especially don't like the Q, and everything else bothers me at least a little: there will be yet another version of this page.) 

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