Sometimes you find an exemplar (like HMML MS Hs. 3, f. 128a) which looks like it should be simple and straightforward and yet flashy and lovely, but it turns out being just a step or two beyond your ability. Ah well, I would have liked this one to have been brilliant, because it's for a fellow scribe, but in the end it's merely "fine". On the other hand, as crappy as the calligraphy is (even with measuring the exemplar, I still didn't get the line spacing right!!) it is still some of the best Gothic I've ever done, and so I'm pretty pleased by that.
And, you know, it is vellum with gold. And it has abbreviations! So it's not all bad.
The text reads:
To our dear clerk Ellisa von Styra greetings from Vitus and Isabel. By these presents we confirm you as a member of our order of panache with all rights and responsibilities. Done xxviij September a.s. liv and witnessed by us below
Two other snaps:
© 2019, Sara L. Uckelman.
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