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I completed this scroll in April 2005. This is Lux Caidis scroll for Thomas Bordeaux, the husband
of my friend Angelina Nicolette de Beaumont. Thomas received his Lux for music, as he's a talented folk singer and composer.
I based this scroll on an Italian antiphonal page from the mid-15th century, and I liked the page because it followed a perfect
"SCA scroll" layout with the block of text on top, and music below that. I did change the capital from an S to a P,
though, using a P from an antiphonal of the same period from Siena cathedral. Done on goat parchment, using a combination
of W&N gouaches, period pigments, and real walnut ink which I made myself. It uses 23.75K gold leaf, on a Permacol
base.
The music is the chorus from one of Thomas's songs, "Silver and Ale" about being a bard (available on tape from Raven
Boy Music - see the links). Mistress Adelaide de Beaumont translated the modern music into medieval neumes for me, and
THL Berenger d'Acre translated the words into Latin. The translation is approximate, though, not exact.
| Thomas Bordeaux's Lux Caidis |
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| A full picture of the scroll |
Sadly, this scroll has been damaged since giving it to Thomas. Their dog decided that parchment must be the same
thing as rawhide when it was left on a table, and started licking it. Fortunately he didn't chew it! But since
I used water soluable paints (bound with gum arabic) the illuminations at the top and bottom got pretty much licked off.
The gold is fine, however. See the bottom of this page for the fixed scroll.
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| Detail - Capital P |
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| Thomas's Lux |
This is a close up shot of the capital P. I realized after I finished the scroll that I'd also included the "p"
again in the first "Per" of the music when I didn't need to, but what's a scroll without some sort of mistake? I don't
think he'll notice it immediately.
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| Detail - Above the capital |
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| Thomas's Lux |
Detail of the illumination above the capital and next to the text. The small filigree bits, i.e. the rubrication,
are done in walnut ink. I don't consider myself to be too adept at this particular technique but I'm hoping it'll
improve eventually. My examplar "P" cut off above the pointed thing, so I copied some other flowers and detail from
the other side of the border illumination on the same piece. The small arms are the badge of the Order of the Lux Caidis.
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| Detail - Below Capital |
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| Thomas's Lux |
The illumination under the capital. My examplar "P" pretty much cut off just below the initial itself, with a little
bit of the looped vine in green below it, so I faked everything below that.
Below is a picture of the scroll, post-dog licking. The dog decided to lick the two corners on the left side
of the scroll, which is where it was painted. It probably would have been fine if he'd licked the other side, but maybe
he liked the taste of the gum arabic I used as a binder (it is a food additive after all). The corners got rather stained
as you can see in the picture below and to the right below.
| The fixed scroll. |
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| Here's what it looks like after repainting |
| Detail of top design |
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| You can see the staining caused by the dog licking this corner. |
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| Detail - Arms |
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| Detail of Thomas's heraldry |
Thomas's arms, aka Purpure, on a roundel ermine a cross ending in four pheons sable (or something like that).
Now I know what a pheon is (thanks, Bruce!). I probably should have done the white mantling with ermine spots as well,
but completely forgot about it before turning it in. If the heralds say something I'll go back and put them in.
| Lower corner fixed |
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| This corner got a lot more licking. |
This corner got a lot more licking, and thus more staining, from the labrador. It also probably stained worse since
there was more paint in this corner than in the upper corner. I tried several things to try and remove or reduce the
stain, but nothing really worked.
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