Hello all, forgive me if this is not the right place. I've been doing research into scribes and illuminators and most of my research comes back with results for the history of manuscripts themselves or the techniques. I'm looking for resources on scriptoriums, scribes and the illumminators themselves; the people behind the work. I do not have a preference for time period and location. Thanks!

I will say that I am a sucker for all things traditional and crafty, but I’m mostly just looking to ease myself in at the moment.

I’ve been struggling with depression and I’m hoping some creative outlets will help.

Would acrylic paints be good? Watercolour? Acrylic-based drawing ink like Diamine?

Ultimately I want to create religious manuscripts.

Thank you

I'm more comfortable with oils, but I've started thinking about making a manuscript to document my group's D&D adventures. I definitely want to get some tempera paints, but I want to be accurate as far as the palette that I'm using.

So I'm curious as to what brand you prefer and what colors/pigments I should be limited to.

Hello! I'm an artist who for a long time wished for a discord dedicated to the creation of medieval book-arts, like illumination and bookbinding. So I made one!

It'd be a place for learning historic painting techniques, finding references for research and reproduction, and sharing your work with other artists who share the same interests!

https://discord.gg/t6saCvPy4Y

Tried to recreate this medieval veterinarian and his patient from a 15th-century French manuscript spread titled “Illnesses of Dogs and Their Cures.” The manuscript, “Book of the Hunt” by Gaston Phébus, is at the Condé museum. I have a lovely reproduction of this spread in one of my favorite art books, “Cani nell’ Arte” (“Dogs in Art”) by Stefano Zuffi.

I took liberty with the color of the jacket, so that overall image works better as a handmade postcard.

This sounds blasphemous but I am hoping to recreate illuminated style art digitally using paint brush style tools in procreate, as I have a concept design I’m hoping to create for a poster.

Has anyone attempted this successfully, or would it be better practice to paint on paper/real life and digitise the design? I have a vision in my head that I’m really hoping to execute but unsure the practicality.

My wife and I are working on a personal research project, and we've found an image of a marginalia rodent that is attributed to the Oscott Psalter, but it's a very close-cropped image, and we were hoping to see the text surrounding it to get some context.

Unfortunately, due to last year's cyberattack on the British Library, the current home of the manuscript, only a few pages of it are available on their website, and who knows when that will get fixed.

So I was hoping reddit could do some reddit magic and direct me to someone or somewhere that might have a digitized copy of the text in a personal collection.

But, as many of the top posts in this subreddit indicate, It's not looking likely.

@kali.graphos

Does anyone know what manuscripts, especially with illumination, has the best examples of Gothic textura quadrata. I am working on a project and want to know what would be the most stylistically appropriate.