27-07-2017, 06:30 PM
(27-07-2017, 09:03 AM)Wolfgang99 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
I used a brass foil about 0.2 mm. thick, more workable if gold, details available can be found in 15 th century jewelry; I made a stencil measuring 18 x 12 mm. high like original
Probably they did not use a quill that moves difficulty within stencil but a very simple pen-nib like the type I used (it does not take a very big mental and technologic jump to think of making a quill point using metal to write thinner ...)
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That's all. Giuseppe Bianchi
I see no evidence that these shapes were made with a stencil. Stenciled images have a certain look and feel to them.
I see no evidence that the letters were written with a special kind of nib. The text has all the characteristics of the kind of quills that were common at the time and, in fact, it's a bit clumsier and messier than professional book-hand manuscripts.
I see no evidence that whoever penned it had the dexterity, tools or skill to encode 5 or 10 extremely precise shapes into one glyph.

