#protogothic

[werewolf-transgenderism]

phrases that rotate in my brain and make me go 🥹❤️‍🩹🥹

[miles blackbeardskneebrace making art out of moments from a love that won’t sit still by @sassygwaine ? simply unprecedented. never happens]

[catilinas]

kids these days aren't learning cursive :( kids these days aren't learning humanistic script :( kids these days aren't learning cursiva anglicana :( kids these days aren't learning protogothic :( kids these days aren't learning caroline minuscule :( kids these days aren't learning rustic capitals :( kids these days aren't learning the etruscan alphabet :( kids these days aren't learning the phoenician abjad :(

[mtridactyla]

my dad doesn't call himself og goth he calls himself "protogoth" because he was wearing all black and dying his long hair in the 80s but he also lived in a tiny town in alabama so he was not just the only goth but also the first. he was goth before there was a goth scene

[notbop]

If you reblogged to signal intent to participate in that ask game:

>>New ask game. Reblog and let people send you gender suggestions.<<

That one:

My gender potluck offering: Lush orchestral arrangement with a strong woodwinds section of a protogoth/postpunk song.

That's a bit long, but I feel it might invoke some ideas for some people that are gender. Or not. It's a potluck contribution. You may take it or leave it as you please.

Interesting...

[ephemeral-winter]

that tumblr medieval monastery post is so funny to me because it’s like when i myself was pursuing the arts of protogothic bookhands and inventing heresies to argue against them i was having the sluttiest time of my life. get out of here with this monastic celibacy bullshit

[upennmanuscripts]

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Today's #FragmentFriday is LJS 502, a late 11th-early 12th century fragment of Saint Ambrose's De mysteriis in protogothic script. Trimmed and used in a binding, the text on the verso side has been damaged by the use of an adhesive. Online: bit.ly/3yqbO6d

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

PROTOGOTHIC SCRIPT

We are preparing a recent gift for cataloging: a fabulous facsimile of the Great Domesday book produced in two volumes with separate volumes of maps and new translations by Alecto Editions of London between 1985 and 1992 for the 900th anniversary of this famous English/Norman manuscript originally produced in 1086. The Domesday Book was William the Conqueror‘s grand survey of his English domains in order to list his holdings and determine the taxes owed to him after his conquest of England in 1066.

Remarkably, this massive manuscript was produced in less that one year by possibly only a couple of scribes. What stands out for us is the hasty but neat, Protogothic script that offers us an example of the transition from the open, round Carolingian minuscule (that we tend to favor today) to the compressed, spiky, and attenuated Gothic scripts that would predominate the late Middle Ages and much of early Renaissance typography. We made posts about the Carolingian minuscule and the Gothic hand previously.

The historian V. H. Galbraith has suggested that Samson, an English cleric who was chaplain to both William I and William II and later the Bishop of Worcester, may have been the principle scribe. This Protogothic hand has a distinctive tendency toward roundness even when compressed. In Domesday, while the letters have become angular and have developed feet, the individual letters are well separated and there are no incomprehensible rows of minims. Letters such as h, b and l have wedged ascenders, supposedly an English characteristic, and the letter s is tall, the t is short, and the w is rather prominent.

The Alecto Edition is the most complete facsimile of the Domesday Book to date, and our copy is the “Penny Edition” produced in an edition of 250 copies and so-called because it literally has two pennies embedded in the front wooden boards of the first facsimile volume, one from 1086, the other from 1986. The facsimiles are quarter-bound in white goatskin and oak boards that were fashioned from floor boards of a Suffolk grand hall built ca. 1500 from trees that were 400 years older, making the wood in these boards roughly contemporary with the original Domesday.

The 11-century penny is a silver coin and was the only coin current in England at the time. Unlike our penny, this penny had some value during its day, and may have been worth a side of mutton. The obverse bears the king’s image with a surrounding legend that reads PILLELM REX -- the P being the form of the English letter wynn, or W. The reverse bears a cross with the surrounding inscription proclaiming the town where the mint was located.

The bronze coin of Queen Elizabeth II is an official proof specimen. The size of the British penny was reduced in 1971, its diameter deliberately based on the first silver pennies of the 8th century, which were the same size as William's pennies 300 years later, so that the 11-entury penny matches the size of its modern descendant almost exactly.

Our copy of Great Domesday is a gift of Lisa A. O'Brien in memory of her mother Ramona J. Sadlon.

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[cadaverkelly]

New video up! My top 10 proto-goth records.

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[legion-stuff]

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[bisexualr2d2]

Guy at work: Yea, my taste in music is pretty weird. Earlier I was listening to a rap song about The Legend Of Ze-

Me, who has been through multiple odd music phases, and is not to be fucked with: Starbomb. You were listening to Starbomb.

[somehorseslooklikedragons]

[pumpkinpaix]

art update: it turns out that if you write on an angled surface, quills are suddenly magically really pleasant to use!!! :O those monks really knew what was up

this is a protogothic hand written in walnut ink with a quill and the words are fragments from a manuscript in our textbook that I chose to show as many different forms as possible haha

[blogmisha]

Protogothic script #calligraphers #calligrapher #calligraphy #calligrafia #gothic #gothiccalligraphy #westerncalligraphy #medievalcalligraphy https://www.instagram.com/p/B2kdBarDb44/?igshid=1h5ibrlsdc2u4