[Scriptoris] Period Display of Scrolls?

[Elaine Crittenden]

I own a leaf (page) from a mid-1500's Spanish choir book of a Gregorian 
style chant. The leaf is 22" wide x 32" high.

Wonder how it was displayed for the choir to read?

Lete

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>From: Diane Rudin <serena1570 at yahoo.com>
>To: "Scribes within Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <scriptoris at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Scriptoris] Period Display of Scrolls?
>Date: Thu THJan 8,2004,11:15 PM
>

> --- Nuala wrote:
>
>> I am not sure if this is even remotely period or not but when I was
>> growing up, many homes had special wooden tables with a slanted top and a
>> lip at the bottom.
>
> <snip>
>
>> Does anyone know if anything similar was used in period, perhaps for
>> ecclesiastical books?
>
> They did have something similar to what you describe, but it was not to
display
> books for admiration, but to hold a book a scribe was copying, or books a
> scholar was studying.  Paintings of St. Jerome, or the Gospel authors, working
> at desks are a good place to find examples of period scribal workspace.
"Saint
> Jerome in his Study", by Domenico Ghirlandaio c. 1480, is my personal
favorite.
>  There's one by Carpaccio, "The Vision of St Augustine" (c. 1500), that also
> has some nice details in it.  The ecclesiatical legal documents in that
picture
> are messily tossed on the floor, with books piled everywhere!
>
> --Serena
>
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