This scroll was created in February 2000 for my partner's Award of Arms. I didn't know if another scroll had been started by the East Kingdom scribes but since I wanted to try a couple of new techniques anyway I thought I'd do one regardless. The inspiration for this scroll came from Bodleian MS Lat. th. b. 4, folio 1 recto, which is an Italian manuscript from the year 1241 and available for viewing on their website.
One amusing thing about this scroll was that I had drawn the clothing on their Majesties from my imagination; I knew that Her Majesty wore Elizabethan and His Majesty was usually decked in earlier garb, but the clothes I drew on them weren't based on any particular reality. (Cal's outfit looked much like the illumination on that day, however.) At the coronation of Their successors later that year, though, Contessa Isabella wore a dress extremely similar to the one I'd drawn. Serendipity, that.
This was the first time I'd tried gilding. The leaf is composite and the size was the commercial gilding stuff in a jar, but now that I've tried it this way, I can't wait to try gilding with the real stuff on gesso! This gilding was done flat on the paper although the original manuscript was done as raised gilding with gesso.
