[Sca-cooks] non-illuminated scrolls

[Stefan li Rous]

Maire commented:
> I don't even have a real scroll for my AoA...what I got was half a 
> sheet
> of paper (like half of an 8.5 x 11 sheet, only heavier paper), with
> someone's Gothic text on it.  I know it's half a sheet because it 
> wasn't
> exactly cut precisely evenly, and my friend, who got her GoA that same
> day, had the other half :o)
Ironically, since the SCA has made great strides in becoming more 
authentic in so many ways, your scroll is actually more authentic than 
the fancier and fancier illuminated award scrolls we see these days. 
The document for a grant in period was simply a legal document. It 
would not have been illuminated in a blaze of color. I remember these 
same comments coming up over 12 years ago. And we have gotten further 
from this than we were then. But everyone likes the pretty colored 
award scrolls. They then make something pretty to hang on our walls. 
The words mean little to folks outside the Society, but they can oh and 
ah over the pretty illuminations and fancy calligraphy.

You will find some of this discussion in this file in the SCRIBAL ARTS 
section of the Florilegium and here is also a period example of a 
grant.
calligraphy-msg  (141K) 11/28/99    Inks, papers, calligraphic styles.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCRIBAL-ARTS/calligraphy-msg.html
Grant-man         (9K)  1/12/94    Example of a Grant-for-life.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCRIBAL-ARTS/Grant-example-msg.html

Stefan
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