Re: VMs: Drawing circles

[Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara Barrett wrote:

> I wonder how many listers realise that the artists tool, the "light
> box", was actually invented in the 7th Century AD by an unknown monk on
> Holy Island to aid the production of the Lindisfarne Gospels (AKA The
> Book of Lindisfarne) and was a standard tool of monastic scriptoria by
> the 8thC? Any well equiped private scriptorium in the 16thC would almost
> certainly have had at least one.

This is very interesting. What did they use for a light source? It seems
like candles would be too dim and too variable - maybe reflected sunlight?
Or was it something as simple (but awkward) as pressing the page against a
vertical window?

Bruce Grant

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