Scriptorium

Roman pen - penna scriptoria


The tip must still cut ready for writing and can be subsequently heated in quartz sand (eg sand birds) even cured.

The Roman nibs may be missing in any scriptorium.

 

    * Dimensions: about 15-30cm
    * 1 piece of uncut
    * Cutting Instructions

Gum arabic - binder for inks

You cut in the bark one a downward angle. The exiting latex forms a drop with a diameter of 2 - 7 cm. This juice is collected, dried and crushed.

Content:

    * 20g grated light powder
    * Vegetable from the resin of shrubs

You cut in the bark up a downward angle. The exiting latex forms a drop with a diameter of 2 - 7 cm. This juice is collected, dried and crushed.

Gall ink - it-yourself kit with gall

Content:

    * 100g dried oak apples

Galls are growths which occur on leaves, twigs and buds of certain species of oak.


Cause of the growths of the gall wasp oviposition, by which the plant tissue is stimulated to grow. Galle is a cover for a pre-growing wasp larva.
Gall-nuts are required for the production of iron-gall ink, which during the Roman antiquity, and of course later became known during the Middle Ages.
Production of iron gall ink:


1. The ground galls (50 g) are boiled in 500 ml of water.
2. The iron sulfate we make with old nails or screws and acetic acid.
3. As the binder gum arabic (20 g) is mixed. DONE!

The nails / screws in the box with the vinegar mix. Bubbles will rise and the iron work, after 3-4 days, the bubbles are less. Now pour the best way to through a coffee filter and finished our "iron sulfate. It later becomes Galläpfelsud and mixed the gum arabic.


This ink is initially only weakly colored, but by oxidation with atmospheric oxygen is the very durable, paint-like ink color, which darkens visible until it is almost black. Please use this only with ink pens (quill) or reed (calamus) use. Drag it never Filler up!

Roman stylus
 
The Roman style brass "stylus" is an ancient writing instrument for describing wax tablets. In this case, the pointed end is used for carving the letters or numbers.
 
The flat side is a kind of eraser to smooth the incised letters!
 

    * Length 15cm
    * Hand-forged

Roman stylus

 

The style of Iron "stylus" is an ancient writing instrument for describing wax tablets. In this case, the pointed end is used for carving the letters or numbers. The flat side is a kind of eraser to smooth the incised letters!

 

    * Length 12cm
    * Wrought iron

Tolle Schreibfeder/Gänsekiel mit Goldener Wechselspitze

Tolle Schreibfeder mit Goldener Wechselspitze. Eine Feder ist ca. 30 cm (+/-) lang.
In dieser Auktion wird eine Feder verkauft! Das Bild ist nur Beispielhaft.
Viele tolle andere Kalligraphie - Sets und Wachsiegel auf Anfrage

Bitte beachten: Der Preis ist für eine Feder!