Pens, Paint-making, and Illumination - NYPL's Three Faiths Scriptorium

[@vickierayhill4637]

Ive been doing historical calligraphy for 30 years and I learned more tricks in this video than in all that time. BRAVO!

[@athenasgrovetrims9999]

So much painstaking work goes into these projects...cherish them!

[@tjrollinthedough102]

Wow! I love the detailed description!!!😊

[@theresedignard7445]

Beautiful. Very informative. She is living my dream.

[@patriciachandler340]

I'm so very jealous of your skills but very glad the art form of Illumination and the quill is not dead.

[@robertovizcaino_art]

Bravo. Buen trabajo 👍

[@yugandali]

I make bamboo pens from the bamboo growing out back, have made pens from chips of wood, and recently made a vey nice pen from a stem of rattan that was blocking my path.

[@parks.]

this is an awesome video, thanks so much for posting this

[@kristine6996]

Magnifiscent ! ✨

[@jesuspaton4075]

Realmente extraordinario.

[@millansky]

Nice video. Thanks for upload. Could you tell me what 'alum' is and where it can be bought? Thanks for answer in advance.

[@TheresaNChristyy]

how long does the gesso take to dry and how long do you have to breathe on the gesso to dampen the gesso? also where did you get the gesso from.. did you make it? please help!

[@cidamarsico2524]

Brillant!

[@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625]

How did the medieval/ancient scribes get the attention span to do this every day? Seems like a person would get bored or have a mistakes because of mind wanderings. I have asked around many KZbin videos on this subject but not gotten much answers.

[@BastiatC]

I can't speak for all cultures that practiced this art, but in Christendom A lot of manuscripts were done by monastic scribes, for whom it a form of meditation and worship. A huge part of why people chose the monastic lifestyle(and for many it was not a choice) was to life a simpler and more peaceful life. So in part it's because they did not look at the task as something to be distracted from, but an escape and a part of their duties. That said they did make mistakes, fortunately the material they were using, vellum, was very forgiving. It was scraped down animal hide, as such if a scrape made a mistake they could simply scrap it off with the same sharp blade they used to cut their quills. In fact it was not uncommon for scribes to scrape clean entire pages in order to reuse the vellum for new books.

[@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625]

@@BastiatC Thank you for your informative response.

[@BastiatC]

@@knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625 of course 😄. I'm just sorry it took 8 months for you to get an answer

[@pabloalvez915]

This is awesome. I'm surprised Americans even appreciate such grand stuff! 😳

[@Sweeper5]

I thought it was to prevent the gold leaf from adhering to the vellum.

[@msnitus]

what does the egg shell do???

[@BastiatC]

It stops the gold leaf sticking absolutely everywhere.

[@erickdelarosa17]

love