[Scriptoris] Fwd: [SCA_S&I] Period Sources for Scribal Arts

[Hillary Greenslade]

Scribes, 
Forwarding this great list of period book sources for scribal related arts.  
Some of these may not longer be available, but at least this is a good start.  
Enjoy, Hillary 

--- Esperanza de Navarra <esperanzadenavarra at yahoo.com> wrote:
> To: Gleann Abhann Scribes <ga_scribes at yahoogroups.com>
> CC: SCA Scribes <sca_scribes_and_illumination at yahoogroups.com>
> From: Esperanza de Navarra <esperanzadenavarra at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:52:07 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [SCA_S&I] Period Sources for Scribal Arts
> 
> I compiled an article this last month for our Baronial newsletter, the Bayou Tapestry
> (http://axemoor.net/bayou%20tapestry/April07.pdf), on period sources for scribes.  I'm sure it's
> not definitive, but I found quite a few.  Some have been reprinted recently, so I included the
> modern publisher info if I could find it.   Also try getting them through the inter library loan
> program that most libraries have.  I've photocopied a few of them that way.  They contain some
> very interesting recipes for period scribal supplies.
> 
> IS,
> Esperanza de Navarra
> 
> April’s Bibliography of Period Sources
> Scribal Arts
> 
> The Arte of Limming A Reproduction of the 1573 Ed Newly Imprinted
> Pub. Society of Scribes and Illuminators
> 
> Art of Limming, Nicholas Hilliard. ~1600
> The 1583 edition is held by Boston University and Princeton; the Free Library in Philadelphia
> has that of 1596.
> 
> A Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing or Colouring of Maps and Prints, Thomas Jenner. 1652
> Online: http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/bookshelf/details.html?bookid=13
> 
> A Booke of Secrets, Anonymous. 1596
> See “Manuscript Inks”
> 
> De Architectura, Vitruvius Pollio. 27 BC
> translated by Frank Granger; Harvard University Press, 1931.
> 
> De Arte Illuminandi. 14th century.
> “An Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Treatise De Arte Illuminandi: The Technique of Manuscript
> Illumination Translated from the Latin of Naples MS XII.E.27” Yale University Press, 1933.
> 
> De Diversis Artibus, Theophilus. ~1122
> ed. and trans. by C. R. Dodwell (Edinburgh and London, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. and New York,
> Oxford University Press,.)
> 
> De Pictura (1435 Latin) or Della Pittura (1436 Italian), Leon Alberti. 
> “On Painting” Penguin Classics, 1991
> 
> The Goettingen Model Book. 15th Century
> Columbia, University of Missouri Press [1972]
> (out of print)
> 
> Il libro dell'arte, Cennino Cennini. ~ 1437. 
> Thompson, D. V., Jr. (1933) The Craftsman’s Handbook ‘Il Libro dell’ Arte’ by Cennino d’A.
> Cennini, New Haven: Yale University Press. Also by Dover Publication 1979.
> 
> Manuscript Inks, Jack Thompson. 
> Not period, but includes “the complete transcription of a 16th c. Booke of Secrets.”
> The Caber Press, 1996.
> 
> Mappae Clavicula  ~1130
> Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1974.
> 
> Medieval and Renaissance Treatises on the Arts of Painting: Original Texts with English
> Translations, Mary P. Merrifield. Dover Publications, 1999. - translated manuscript collections
> on painting and related arts from the 12th through 17th centuries.
> 
> Naturalis Historia, Pliny the Elder. 
> Online text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plin.+Nat.+toc
> 
> A Nevv Booke, containing all sorts of hands vsvally written at this day in Christendome, Jehan
> de Beau-Chesne;  E B. 1611
> Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI 1999- (Early English books online)
> 
> On Divers Arts, Theophilus.  ~1122
> Dover Publications; New Ed edition, 1979.
> 
> Polygraphice; Or, The Arts of Drawing, Engraving, Etching, Limning, Painting, Washing,
> Varnishing, Gilding, Colouring, Dying, Beautifying and Perfuming; by William Salmon. 1672
> 
> The Secretes of the Reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemont . . . Translated out of French into
> Englishe, by William Warde. 1568
> Facsimile by Walter J. Johnson, Inc. 1975
> 
> The Strasburg manuscript; a medieval painters' handbook.  1187
> Trans.: Viola & Rosamund Borradaile.  Transatlantic Arts, 1966.
> 
> Treatise of painting, Leonardo da Vinci. 
> Kessinger Publishing, 2004.
> 
> Vasari on Technique, Giorgio Vasari. 16th Century.
> Dover Publications, 1960.
> 
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