As usual, when Her Excellency asks, I volunteer for her! And I was so excited to be asked to do this St. Roch (Stierbach Baronial Service Award) for a friend and mentor. He tends to like things that are from a very specific time and place so I tried to find an exemplar as close to both as possible. In the Bodleian Library, I found this Bodley Liturg. 198 Choir Psalter, an excellent example of miniatures and detailing from NorthEast England (Roughly either East Anglia or Northumbria) and dated 1350-1375 C.E. The original was likely done on either parchment or vellum with iron oak gall ink for the Gothic lettering. Real gold leaf would likely have been attached with gesso, and period pigments such as yellow ocher, vermillion, madder lake, red lead, either lapis blue or azurite blue, white made from lead, black made from carbon, and a terre vert or green dirt would have been used to add the colors.
I used more modern materials. Pergamenta for my substrate, Higgins ink for the lettering, finetec gold instead of gold leaf, and gouache paints.
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