#calligraphers

[uwmspeccoll]

It's Fine Press Friday!

This edition of the poem Pied Beauty, by the 19th-century English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), was designed, printed, and bound in Silver Spring, Maryland by calligrapher Rose Folsom using Adobe Photoshop and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse's Nofret type in an edition of 50 copies in 1999. Here is the complete poem:

Glory be to God for dappled things –    For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;       For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;    Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;       And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange;    Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)       With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:                                 Praise him.

Rose Folsom, a Wisconsin native, has been a leading calligraphic practitioner for decades, and she is also a Roman Catholic convert, a motivational speaker, and a lay member of the Dominican Order. Our copy of Pied Beauty is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick, who was also interested in Catholic theology, and is signed to Bayuzick by Rose Folsom.

View more books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

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[u-mspcoll]

An outstanding icazetname in Isl. Ms. 438

First part of a calligraphy license or diploma (icazetname) in naskh (nesih) script, mounted in fol.17b in Isl. Ms. 438, Islamic Manuscripts Collection 

Second part of a calligraphy license or diploma (icazetname) in naskh (nesih) script, mounted as a separate piece in fol.21a in Isl. Ms. 438, Islamic Manuscripts Collection 

Enjoy this post by Sumeyra Dursun, 2023 Heid Fellow, from her research in the Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Sumeyra is a doctoral candidate in the history of Islamic arts at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul.

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[brooklynscribe58]

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[cryptixotic]

Be real with me. You're sitting in a bar and a 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔞 with a massive sword rams into the door. Do you or do you not laugh

[parisoonic]

can you draw some more medic and pauling...? I would love them just gossiping

have some doodles! Something something patient confidentiality....

[omnificent-orion]

Waiting for...

[baba-is-blog]

BABA IS SHOCKED

[thepastisalreadywritten]

"The Writing Boy"

In 1774 AD, during the reign of Louis XVI (1754-1793), Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jacques Dro (1721-1790) unveiled a remarkable engineering feat that would go down in history as the world's first android or programmed automaton.

Known as "The Writing Boy," this creation appeared at first glance to be a simple wooden doll with a porcelain head, barefoot, and holding a goose feather.

But hidden within this seemingly ordinary toy was a technological marvel, a writing mechanism powered by 6,000 intricate moving parts, making it the first automatic calligrapher.

"The Writing Boy" was a groundbreaking achievement, as it was capable of writing complex sentences, such as "My inventor is Jacques Dro."

The automaton was a product of 20 months of meticulous work by Pierre Jacques Dro, and its debut in Paris stunned the court of King Louis XVI.

The android's ability to perform such an intricate task showcased the high level of craftsmanship and innovation of the time.

This astonishing creation marked a significant milestone in the history of robotics and engineering.

Not only was it the world’s first programmed android, but it also demonstrated the potential of machines to replicate human actions.

"The Writing Boy" paved the way for future advancements in automation, solidifying Pierre Jacques Dro’s legacy as a pioneer in the field of robotics.

[mostly-paper-kind]

Thought I'd share my take on the calligrapher; Lilly is the problem. Okay so Lilly is the person organising the state dinner right, and there's lots of ways she's doing badly at it. But the big one is she can't decide who is going. Like we're told she kept changing the number of guests, it was 100 or maybe 200. And the number of rooms the dinner would be held in. It was one then three, then a tent outside. And the servers said this was a problem as well. Because they rehearse how they are going to serve the meals. I'd also like to argue that the security breaches are part as well, because the social secretary's office was helping clear the people who came into the white house but obviously something went wrong because three people got in who shouldn't have. But the whole problem goes back to Lilly constantly changing who is going to the dinner and where they're going to sit, then St. Pierre tells her to move things around and I'm assuming the calligrapher writes more place cards based on the the changes. It's not super clear how long she has been making changes, but she makes them right up till the dinner starts. There's a shot where you can clearly see the calligrapher is stressed. He literally says it hasn't been a good night. You can see some of the place cards on the table are neat, but by the time the dinner is about to start he's got bad handwriting. Yes, you'd expect a calligrapher to write nice, and the fact he doesn't is just another way of showing hey this really hasn't been a good night. Really there isn't anything suspicious about the calligrapher. The state dinner didn't go well for him just the same as Wynter and Didier and Marvella and the Florist and the Plumber and Elsyie and Jasmine and Sheila and Tripp. The place cards are just another little clue pointing at Lilly who doesn't respect how things are done in the white house.

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Ahmet the Calligrapher

Died May 3, 1682

Feast Day: May 3

Saint Ahmet or Ahmed, a Muslim, lived in Constantinople. He worked as an Ottoman official in the office of the Chief Secretary and served as a copyist and calligrapher in the Great Archives. He converted to Christianity because of the influence of his Russian concubine’s faith and after experiencing the Christian liturgy. When defending the Christian faith and renouncing Islam, he was martyred.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

[marlequinncos]

I directly translated Astarion's back scars

I'm a language nerd (even when the language is fictional), so I decided to directly translate the sigil that Cazador carved into Astarion's back.

I know you do find out the gist of what the scars mean in-game, but I wanted to translate it letter-by-letter, and then word-by-word.

We know that its a poem written in Infernal, which is the language of devils and the hells. If you translate it from Infernal, you get the following:

"Hoc inferius non iurare per ignis

Haec verba loquor

Et hoc mundo mutat"

As you can see, this is not English; its Latin, which makes sense since its a "magical language". Now, if you translate the Latin to English and fiddle with the grammar a bit, you get something like this:

"This I swear by the fires below

I speak these words

And this changes the world."

Obviously this ties in very closely with Astarion's backstory and I think its very cool that Larian took the time to actually make the scars real text instead of just random texture.

ETA: I want to point out that the "non" in the first Latin sentence doesn't actually make grammatical sense. I think its probably there to look cool/fill in the physical design, because excluding it makes the sentence itself make sense, and its exclusion works in the context of the sigil's purpose. So that's why I omitted it from my translation.

[unbfacts]

The White House employs a Chief Calligrapher responsible for crafting official documents, including invitations, menus, and place cards. The position earns over $100,000 annually.

[naomiknight-17]

Just got this sweet print by @theshitpostcalligrapher framed! In a gold frame, of course. As is appropriate.

Now to wrap it up nice and wait for Christmas when my brother (who is obsessed with this joke) will finally behold its glory

[fontriver]

NCL Kisgade font designed by Enxyclo Studio

[miamaimania]

"Bluviola" (1961) by Carla Accardi ☀ Tempera marks spiral through violet and indigo

[lilbasthet]

I'm rewatching The Residence and I need at least another season!

There are so many interesting nods to Cordelia's background and family history (like the general neurodivergent-codedness of the family, the fact that her brother died (??) and the parents are keeping his room untouched, her father wearing some Kind of Military Uniform(??), her mom doing things he doesn't like behind his back, ...)

I NEED TO KNOW MORE! GIVE ME MORE