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RE: VMs: Vellum - for Dana

Hello Jeff,

First, let me say that the quality of the work done by the scribes appeared much better that I had originally expected. There is a very small percentage of the text that is difficult to see clearly. The text and paint, in my opinion, was allowed to dry completely before the pages were ever cut and layed side by side. It is likely that pages on the same side of vellum were somehow related. The opposing side of the vellum was added later and the theme may have varied. I am not certain that the scribes thought through all the foliation for both sides of the vellum prior to performing their art work.

I was very impressed with the quality of penmanship, ink, drawings, and paint/painting applied by scribe-2. I was struck immediately by this individuals attention to detail. Scribe-1 was good, but the writing, drawing, and painting seems older and did not strike me as being his/her primary avocation. Scribe-3 also wrote well but didn't care much for painting, compared to scribe-2. I believe that it was scribe-3 (the dark painter) who used the vellum with the velvety touch.




Dana Scott





From: "J HALEY" <j.haley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: VMs: Vellum - for Dana
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:32:59 +0100

Hi Dana

You noted three scribes. What I would like to know is your
impression of differences in the vellum between scribe one
and that of scribe two and three. I know this might be a hard
question to answer, but did the apparent quality of production
improve for the last two scribes?

Jeff

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