Oh boy, this has been a long week. I’d rather be walking the dog on this bright autumn afternoon, but the assignment needs to be finished for the week. It has taken me longer than the other weeks. I think I’ve got tech neck from bending over the workbench. Whine, whine, winge, winge. I do like this course though, and have repeatedly watch various aspects of this week’s lectures of the mise-en-page. No translations this week.
This week we are working on the “mise-en-page” or the layout. My influences have been the following:
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- © Madrid, Real Academia de la Historia, Cód. 80. Detail of pricking between the columns. [available online]
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- Bibliotheque Nationale de France
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- Page laid out as two columns, from Robert of Gretham, ‘Mirur’, WLC/LM/3, f. 72r University of Nottingham
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- 1324 Jean Pucelle | The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux, Queen of France | French | The Met Public
I thought that before I decided on what sort of mise-en-page I was to do, I needed a text upon which to base myself. I chose La Fontaine’s Contes Choisies from my childhood. La Fontaine re wrote verses from Aesop’s fables in french vernacular, often taken as morality tales for children, but presumably initially intended for adults.The verses are short and would likely fit into small columns as well as single column text boxes.
Some of my pages were not cut all the way through and I liked the idea of the dry point ruling because that would save me time.
I chose the secret canon mise-en-page for the uncut quire. I thought that if I sued dry point line ruling it would be easy to see later.
The drypoint ruling worked really well and I was reluctant to try the other methods.
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- Uncut quire has ruling marks
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- Using a hard stylus to make the lines
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- The back side or raised edge
The next quire I used had two separate sheets and I needed to replicate the St Remi recipe on all leaves. I thought I’d try two columns.
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- Dividing the page
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- 1 column
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- 2 Columns
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- in-text pricking
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- IN-text pricking with dryppoint lines
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- Pricking with awl and ruler
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- Pricking with knife
I used a lead pencil to make the lines because that’s the only pencil I had; if I had had the time I would have used watercolour.
I made a short trailer. If you click here you will see it.
cheers
erika
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