Laurencia's barony court doc

[helwen]

For those interested, here's Laurencia's court doc. Sig space below painting didn't make it into the scan, and apparently the glass distorted things a little bit (at least to my eye), because it looks slightly parallelogram-ish, when it reality it isn't. Other than that, not too bad. The dimensions of the 'pages' are very close to the original size, maybe 1-2% larger.




Click on picture to get a larger image.

EDIT: Source. Master of Mary of Burgundy, Book of Hours for Engelbert of Nassau, the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Intro and Legends by J.J.G. Alexander. Publisher George Braziller/New York. ISBN 0-8076-0578-6 (slipcased edition). ISBN 0-8076-1332-0 (jacketed edition)

ADDITIONAL NOTE: The copy of the book I have isn't the best for figuring out how the shading on the cases is done, nor for the goldwork. There are some similar examples of this book online, but not of this exact page (so far as I can find). But the rest of the repro is decent quality. I'm amazed at the original artist's eye for detail -- for instance, the depiction of different types of glass that existed at that time, including whether the glass on the base goes up in a point or not (the 2 with flowers in them do, the one with the bulbs/tubers in base, does not).

Comments

[ellid.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely *stunning*.

[beard5.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that's beautiful! Brilliant work.

[calygrey.livejournal.com]

Very nicely done. It's great to be able to see it.

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Hey, I recognize that source! :D

http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/KayleighMcWhyte/Scribal%20Folio/Scribal%20Folio%20AS%2041/?action=view¤t=Maunche-Rupert.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch6
(Slightly different interpretation, but the one you did yours from is my source of inspiration for this piece)

I love how you did yours. :) And I have been dying to find the book this is out of. Do you happen to have the name of the source, or an ISBN?

[freya46.livejournal.com]

That is drop dead gorgeous.

[jdulac.livejournal.com]

that is utterly fabulous....

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Good adaptation :) I'm posting an edit to my original post, with the info on the book, plus an observation I forgot to put in.

Danke!

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting that additional information - when I was initially searching around for this source, everyone kept telling me "Master of Mary of Burgundy". Which I have - but not this particular book. The one I have is the thick book, not the small thin one, which is obviously very different... I need to get my hands on it.

...Any idea if Small Churl will be at Bergental Yule? :D

Re: Danke!

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Yes, she will. In fact she's working on putting a book order together right now. I gave her the info, but I didn't know if you wanted the slipcased or jacketed version, or it that matters. You can let her know at: scbooks (at) mindspring (dot) com

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I had a lot of fun with it, altho' it was a little scarey at the same time. While I know that in theory I can do just about anything if I try hard enough, I haven't done much with things that have translucence or reflections.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Thank you, you're very kind :) I enjoyed it enough that I'm going to do more work in this style in the future.