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Gorgeous klaf + amazing quill + well-behaved ink = four columns in two days (as well as naps, admin, swimming and teaching). Really nice letters, too. Happy am I.
Another one of those funny coincidences, now I think about it. This particular piece of klaf is amusingly splotchy on the back (at UH I was using it to demonstrate how klaf retains a lot of the features of the original animal, this particular calf having been black and white in splotches), and in the writing it's got the bit where Jacob gets all the splotchy animals as wages.
Also, the writing on this piece has been fast, smooth and lovely, going at a splendid pace, did I mention four columns in two days? and much of the subject-matter was alarming fecundity, the bit where Leah and the maidservants are popping out babies every couple of minutes and the bit where the flocks are multiplying like nobody's business.
I do like it when the writing matches the real-life circumstances in some way. My other favourite was on some restoration, summer before last - a goat scroll. Goat scrolls are usually a bit whiffy, but one of the klaf sheets in particular was quite overwhelmingly goaty (and isn't it extraordinary how the tanning process and a couple of hundred years combined can't get the smell out? Talk about longevity). Really, seriously, reeling-backwards give-me-air goaty - and it was one of the sections which talks about "a pleasing odour to the Lord." Which I thought was spectacularly amusing.
Another one of those funny coincidences, now I think about it. This particular piece of klaf is amusingly splotchy on the back (at UH I was using it to demonstrate how klaf retains a lot of the features of the original animal, this particular calf having been black and white in splotches), and in the writing it's got the bit where Jacob gets all the splotchy animals as wages.
Also, the writing on this piece has been fast, smooth and lovely, going at a splendid pace, did I mention four columns in two days? and much of the subject-matter was alarming fecundity, the bit where Leah and the maidservants are popping out babies every couple of minutes and the bit where the flocks are multiplying like nobody's business.
I do like it when the writing matches the real-life circumstances in some way. My other favourite was on some restoration, summer before last - a goat scroll. Goat scrolls are usually a bit whiffy, but one of the klaf sheets in particular was quite overwhelmingly goaty (and isn't it extraordinary how the tanning process and a couple of hundred years combined can't get the smell out? Talk about longevity). Really, seriously, reeling-backwards give-me-air goaty - and it was one of the sections which talks about "a pleasing odour to the Lord." Which I thought was spectacularly amusing.
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