[MR] Fw: Calf to Codex project info

[Marjory Johnson]

Yours in Service,


Lady Isobel Muire


m.k.a Marj Johnson

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From: Marjory Johnson <mj05209 at yahoo.com>
To: "atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.org" <atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.org> 
Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 10:57 AM
Subject: Calf to Codex project info
 

The "Calf-to-Codex” is a project to create a medieval book from the ground up. We have the knowledge and experience to do this, here, in the Kingdom of Atlantia of the Society for Creative Anachronism. We just need to come together to do it. We are using the framework of the SCA 50th Anniversary to give us a psychological push and a deadline.

This project is like the one that made the Great Booke more than twenty years ago. But we have learned things from that experience. As we conceive it right now, the
 finished book will not be the property of any one person, group, or organization. That is to say: unlike the Great Booke, it will not be given to the Crown or sent to a museum. Instead, it will be used like a book should be – read from, to us, at events and gatherings. We will have a custodian to take care of it, and invite readers to read to us from it.


To that end, we need a text that will hold people’s attention and is worth writing in such a book. So part of the project involves composing stories and histories about us, that are worth retelling. We invite the bards of Atlantia, historians and collectors of oral histories, to help produce such a text.


We will need the help of scribes and illuminators, of course. But there is room for all sorts of other help . Medeival scribes needed a huge support network – butchers and parchment-makers to supply them with skins to write on, poulterers to supply them with eggs with which
 to make paint, gardeners to grow plants for paint dyes, spinners to spin flax for the binding thread, metalworkers to make the bits of hardware used to protect the finished book.
We have made a beginning, and produced a number of parchment skins. Other steps will follow. Through this group we will keep people informed of our progress, and ask for help as we need it. We invite visitors who are not participants in the Society for Create Anachronism, to use our site for educational purposes and comment on our success as re-creators of this part of the medieval past. 

The website mentioned is the open group on Face Book; Kingdom of Atlantia Calf to Codex. I hope you can all join me on this journey.

Yours in Service,


Lady Isobel Muire


m.k.a Marj Johnson