Russian Calligraphy and Illumination
Medieval Russia -- Calligraphy and Illumination
This includes calligraphic hands, illumination information, computer fonts (because people are always asking me), and whatever else I can scrounge up.
Russian and Cyrillic computer fonts
Scroll examples
A scroll made by Geneviéve d'Evreux http:web.archive.org/web/20050421023207/http:www.ipass.net/~lindap/russian/VladsKnighting.jpg Pages from a Russian manuscipt: Manuscript Page 1 Manuscript Page 2
Comments on making the above Russian Scroll from Geneviéve d'Evreux "A friend (Mistress Francesca la Curiosa) sat down with the text and sounded everything out and gave me a phonetic transliteration I felt I could trust - using only letters that we could find in the Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander. I really didn't want to use a pseudo-script and there wasn't time for a real translation." "The funny part was that I had a harder time keeping the Russian letters out of my head when I did the gloss than vice versa. I switched back and forth so I wouldn't risk messing up what I had already written."
[Note that the Gospel of Tsar Ivan Alexander is actually Bulgarian, not Russian, but the Old Cyrillic alphabet is the same. -Sofya]
