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Back to lettering Bury Style

By ronniecruwys on April 11, 2016

I’d like to pick up where I left off on my previous taster post of the Bury Bible’s Romanesque lettering (you can refer back to it here). I’d like to share some examples which I’ve gathered from this great work which may be suitable for naming saints of this period, for example:

Some saints with direct or indirect associations with this manuscript or who lived during the early 12th Century: Edmund the Martyr (also known as St Edmund or Edmund of East Anglia, died 20 November 869 St Anselm feast day 21 April St Cellach (Ceilach Keilach) b1080 Ireland d 1129 Archbishop Armagh St Elisabeth Rose, Benedictine nun, b 1130 Courtenay France St Stephen Harding, b 1059, d 1134 co-founder of Cistercian order St William of York, England, b 1154, Archbishop of York St Wulfric, b 1080, Bristol, England St Thomas Becket of Canterbury, b1118, Cheapside, London, martyr St Hildegarde of Bingen b 1098, Germany St Lawrence O’Toole, b1125, Kildare, Ireland, Archbishop Dublin St Gilbert of Sempringham, b 1083 St Bartholomew of Farne b1193, Whitby Northumbria

I’m hoping that the painted letters which I’m sharing here will be clear enough to save to your desktop for your own use. They need a bit more refining but they are a reasonable start. If you do get round to using them – I would love to see your work!

 

Hope these are useful some day and thanks for reading!

Ronnie