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

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    Watch how bird feathers are carved into quills, how paint is made, and how gold is added to illuminate manuscripts in this video from the Scriptorium at The New York Public Library's "Three Faiths" exhibition, open Friday, October 22, 2010 through Sunday, February 27, 2011.

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  • @vickierayhill4637
    @vickierayhill4637 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @tjrollinthedough102
    @tjrollinthedough102 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow! I love the detailed description!!!😊

  • @athenasgrovetrims9999
    @athenasgrovetrims9999 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @theresedignard7445
    @theresedignard7445 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful. Very informative. She is living my dream.

  • @patriciachandler340
    @patriciachandler340 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @robertovizcaino_art
    @robertovizcaino_art 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bravo. Buen trabajo 👍

  • @yugandali
    @yugandali 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.
    @parks. 12 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @kristine6996
    @kristine6996 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Magnifiscent ! ✨

  • @jesuspaton4075
    @jesuspaton4075 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Realmente extraordinario.

  • @cidamarsico2524
    @cidamarsico2524 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brillant!

  • @millansky
    @millansky 11 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @TheresaNChristyy
    @TheresaNChristyy 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    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!

  • @erickdelarosa17
    @erickdelarosa17 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    love

  • @Sweeper5
    @Sweeper5 11 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @msnitus
    @msnitus 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    what does the egg shell do???

    • @BastiatC
      @BastiatC 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It stops the gold leaf sticking absolutely everywhere.

  • @knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625
    @knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    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 TH-cam videos on this subject but not gotten much answers.

    • @BastiatC
      @BastiatC 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BastiatC Thank you for your informative response.

    • @BastiatC
      @BastiatC 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @pabloalvez915
    @pabloalvez915 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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