April 16 & 17:
Paste Papers: Jill Berry
 

October 1 & 2:
Charles Pearce
The Forensics of Calligraphy - the 10th Century Winchester Hand

At the beginning of the 20th Century when Edward Johnston was first formulating his Foundational Hand for the teaching of calligraphy, he took as his model the Ramsey Psalter (Harley 2904). It was Donald Jackson who first coined the term "forensic calligraphy" to describe the careful analysis of early manuscripts and far be it from me to try to change both the term and its sense.

In this workshop we will first cut quills and then, having armed ourselves with the tools, do an in depth study of the letters which first so appealed to Edward Johnston. There are now so many variations of the Foundational Hand that we really owe it to ourselves to go right back to the source, and, through the miracles of modern technology (I have been able to get digital images of two pages from the Ramsey Psalter from the British Library) we shall be able to do just that.
 

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