Claire Hummel ([info]shoomlah) wrote,
@ 2007-11-14 19:50:00
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Entry tags:art, paleography

I don't think I ever posted anything from my paleography class this past semester, so I'll try to scan some of that once I can get my hands on it- in the meantime, here's an alphabet I scripted based on an illuminated manuscript of Honoré Bonet's L'Arbre des Batailles. I love the batarde scripts- a sort of cursive version of the gothic texturas- so this was fun:



-C


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[info]dirigibles
2007-11-15 01:15 am UTC (link)
uhh... what's that alphabet doing toward the end, there?

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[info]shoomlah
2007-11-15 02:04 am UTC (link)
there are two d's, and it ends on u and y... This script didn't have x's or z's.

-C

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U, y and esessseseszzz. 2. 2 of them. s x 2.
[info]ungulata
2007-11-15 04:27 am UTC (link)
It's like the monk had giggle-fits when he got to the end of the alphabet. What's going down after 'r'? Are those two s's?

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Re: U, y and esessseseszzz. 2. 2 of them. s x 2.
[info]shoomlah
2007-11-15 05:19 am UTC (link)
oh, whup, two s's as well, yes. They wouldn't have necessarily written out the alphabet like this- the different forms of the letters had reasons for existing in accordance with whatever letters they were before and after.

-C

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Re: U, y and esessseseszzz. 2. 2 of them. s x 2.
[info]gobi
2007-11-15 12:13 pm UTC (link)
People don't know about ligatures? I must have been taking crazy pills. :O

Anyhoo, if you want to turn this into a computer font, check out Fontifier, an entirely web-based font creation tool.

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[info]tesseracting
2007-11-20 10:47 pm UTC (link)
your school has the best classes ever.

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