Writing 200 pages on parchment, with gall ink, with a quill pen, is hard work. Scribes were paid for their work because it's not the sort of thing most people do for pleasure.
Doing calligraphy for fun is quite different from writing page after page in the same script. Doing it for fun usually involves experimenting with styles and layout, but this doesn't happen in the VMS. It's the same style throughout and the layout is fairly pedestrian.
Doing calligraphy for fun is quite different from writing page after page in the same script. Doing it for fun usually involves experimenting with styles and layout, but this doesn't happen in the VMS. It's the same style throughout and the layout is fairly pedestrian.

