Brian's Notebook

After last week's  decoration  of the manuscript, all that remains is to bind it. Book binding dates from around the first century C.E.,...

In the  previous week  we just practiced a bit of writing; for this week, students were supposed to write and decorate a text. We only had t...

In the  previous part  of this project, I worked on the page layout of my fake parchment. For the next part, the instructor wanted students ...

A commonly used ink in the Middle Ages was iron gall ink; there is an  article  about it on Wikipedia. The problem is that it uses some ingr...

In the  previous part  of the project, I gathered together my fake parchment into quires; now they have to be prepared to receive text and d...

The second installment of this project, which began here:  A Medieval project (1) . This week, I create quires out of the fake medieval parc...