Showing posts with label 10th Century. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 10th Century. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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Early Period Celtic Knot Work Thank you Note
In Early 2017, I had reason to create a special thank you for some family for their gracious support and donations to my Lord's Knighting Ceremony. They are no SCA folk, but since their actions pertained to the SCA, I decided to make them something lovely, based on a period work I'd seen and loved.
This celtic knotwork illuminated letter 'b' from the late 10th century, comes from a latin vellum manuscript known as 'Evangelia Ottonis'. The notes at Rylands mention that it is possibly Italian in origin.
Using Guache, Pergimanata, a light box and gold leaf, I attempted to recreate the majority of this work in detail as follows:
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