How were the scripts written in historical manuscripts? Is it difficult to cut a quill and how long would it last? What differences did changes of nib angle of the quill make? How did Caroline Minuscule and English Caroline Minuscule differ when written by a scribe?Are vellum and parchment the same? These practical matters and others relating to letter-forms will be addressed by professional scribe Patricia Lovett, who, using slides and hand-outs will follow through the various writing styles in historical sequence from Uncials in the sixth century to Cancelleresca in the sixteenth century.

Bibliography:
Brown and Lovett, Source Book for Scribes, (London: The British Library, 1999)
De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators (1992)
Johnston, Writing, Illuminating and Lettering (1906, many reprints) 

Please bring a pencil: pens are not allowed when valuable manuscript facsimiles are in use