[Scriptoris] OOP: University of Iowa's miniature books collection

[Elaine]

Huzzah for miniatures!!

As a long time scribe, I had fun one time with a metal pen nib that I  
specially honed and wrote Humanistic Minuscule at 1/20 (that's one  
twentieth) of an inch high for the body and ascender of a line. I had  
to wear jeweler's goggles, but I did it.

I also did an uber-miniature short piece with a versal and first  two  
lines in red gouache of a quote (the rest in black ink) from Sir  
Francis Bacon (b. 1561).

Wasn't it baseball Hall of Famer Dizzy Dean who said: "It ain't  
braggin' if you done it."

I put them on display at an SCA show, providing a magnifying glass to  
better see the small postage-sized vellum piece. (Baron Edwin  
remarked on them to the court.)

My biggest giggle afterwards (and is still funny to me) was a  
Laurel's (unnamed) written commentary: "I have never written that  
small, but your letters are sloppy," Keep in mind, they were  
bordering on microscopic and were all hand written. ; - DDDDDDD (my  
guffaws)

What I want to know is who did the binding on the U of Iowa pair?  
Wow!!!!

YIS,
HL Lete Bithespring, Steppes
(antique scribe and illuminator)
; - )

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On Aug 13, 2013, at 1:03 PM, S L Niemann wrote:

> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/revealed-a- 
> book-the-size-of-a-ladybug/278427/
>
> They were able to put a new miscroscope to use in reading this  
> book. Very
> cool!
>
> Ines Alfon
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