[Bordermarch] Eastern baronial pilgrimage

[tessa]

Thank you Mi'lord Beau Delamere and your sweet bride Mi'lady Carin
for the detailed account of your journey to the museum
with descriptions of what you did witness.
It is through sharing such as yours that others may also learn.
So glad that Her Excellency Therese' and the Lord & Lady Whitewolf
and yourselves had the opportunity to invest time in such a day together!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Thelismar at bordermarch.org>
To: <bordermarch at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 10:41 PM
Subject: [Bordermarch] Eastern baronial pilgrimage


> On the 16th of January m'lady Carin and I were happy to have picked up by
> modern carriage HL Therese d' Ivoire...We made our way to the County of
> Orange where we were accompanied by the Lord & Lady Whitewolf...We entered
> the Lutcher-Stark monastery (museum) to lay eyes upon actual period
> scribal books...Seeing is believing, but what seems unbelievable is the
> actual size of these works...These books are only (on avg.) 5"x7" (yes
> Lord Chrestien {"} means inches)...All the works dated between
> 1400-1500a.d....They were Books of Hours & calendars of holy days &
> feasts...The exhibit goes down on the 30th of January...the show is a must
> see for any scribal enthusiast...the illuminations ARE paintings in a
> pseudo 2-d format but they project in three dimensional depth...the
> lettering is SO small that one wonders how any person could have done that
> type of work for so long w/out going blind...Then you find out that they
> did not live long because they used red lead for the red in the
> "paintings"...Another perspective that seeing the pieces in person gives
> is that the artists'/scribes'/miniares' DID use shading to give depth &
> DID try to convey some sense of realism in the work as illustrated in one
> of the book's border trim illumination...The vibrance of the gold & the
> depth of the hues in the colors are shocking...Let us remember that these
> pieces were made 600 years ago and they look as if they were displayed @
> BAM as part of an A&S project, only better...truly a must-see...If you do
> miss this years expo @ the Stark do not worry...they will display more
> books of hours next holiday season from november to january...Funny thing
> is they don't know how many illuminated texts they have in archive...it
> could be dozens or more...And, each book contains hundreds of
> pages...WOW!...
>     We then left the Stark "scribal-ly refreshed" & proceeded down to the
> Shangria-La Nature park where we had a nice walk & sight-seeing tour
> of the areas best brown winter fauna...Just kidding...The park is
> very lovely in the non-brown months (MAR-OCT)...While walking through
> the park & museum I did have the chance to speak w/ our baronial
> herald @ great length & in great detail about "what is in a name" for
> the SCA...We both agreed that Thelismar will not work because i
> cannot find it anywhere before 1830a.d....But, since everyone calls
> me Beau anyway & it is really a nickname & not my real name &, to
> make this run-on sentence complete, I found it being used in France
> in 1292...Why don't we just stick w/ Beau, but change the last name
> to Delamere (of the sea) from Dumesnil???...Well, if you were not
> bored before then you are now so good night...m'lord BEAU
>
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