RE: VMs: How translucent is vellum?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi GC,

At 17:11 02/08/2003 -0500, GC wrote:
> My lay understanding of the circinus, the standard compass of this period,
> was that it was widely used as a scribe tool, and I don't know of any
> examples that were "inkable".  Metal nibs were not in use then,

...I'm not a metal nib historian by any means, but when I went to the 
Hanse@Medici multi-site exhibition in Bruges, I remember seeing a glass 
display containing some metal nibs owned by the Medici family - 15th 
Century, IIRC.

They were certainly not in *wide* use then, though. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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