Carolingian Practice Sheets?

[Chelsy]

OK, so I finally decided the first hand I want to learn is Carolingian, just not sure what variance yet....

 

Anyway, I had a thought on what would help me to learn it the most efficiently. I would like to get some practice sheets with all the different height letter lines. Some of the sheets would have the letters above and a blank line below where I would try to replicate. And some would have a faint watermark of the letters that I could trace repeatedly to help get the movements down. Does this exist anywhere or should I just try to make my own?

 

[Randal6393]

Marc Drogin's Medieval Calligraphy should meet your needs. Roughly 8.5 X 11 inches, you can clip a translucent sheet of paper over the writing and practice easily. In addition to Carolingian Miniscule, Mr. Drogin teaches everything from Roman Rustic to Gothic. Only script missing is Italic. Can be acquired through Amazon, Alibri's, Abebooks, etc. Many old copies, usually not too expensive.

 

Mr. Drogin also has out several other books on Medieval writing styles.

 

Enjoy,

[ksm]

[Chelsy]

Yeah I bought the Dorgin's and it only had one page on it. And the I was attracted to a different style of Carolingian than what was in his book, or maybe it was a different hand... are there different versions of Carolingian out there? The one I saw had ascenders and descenders that were taller than the uppercase and the "a" was different that KSM's writing above. And of course now I can't find it on the internet to show you what I'm talking about. The search continues...

[ksm]

IMHO the only way to find what you are looking for is to go through photos of manuscripts available on-line in hope of finding it. Painstakingly slow process...