Sunday, February 11, 2018

Raziya's Laurel Text

Raziya's Laurel scroll is a remarkable piece of work, where the very tiny calligraphed words form a knotwork design.  As a result, the scribe essentially told me to write until she had enough words to fill out the design.  Below is the process pic the amazing scribe, Rhonwen Glyn Conwy, shared during the process.  I'll try to get a picture of the final from Raziya.



As a result, this is  very long text even for me at 300+ words. 

By Ivan the King.  By Matilde the Queen.  Since memory of this world is fleeting and its state cannot always be as it should be, therefore, so that present and future generations may have true and full notice of those things that were done by Us, it is useful and worthy to commend such things to memory by writing so that if dissension should arise in something after the course of time has elapsed, it may be resolved by the force of writing.  Thus, We wish it known to all the persons of our Realm, present and future, and to all persons of all the Realms of whatever degree, high or low, and being so known to be held and to retained in memory, that upon this day and date, induced by the requests of Companions of the Laurel and many others, we did give, grant and bestow unto our servant Raziya bint Rusa the acclaim, rank, prestige and status of the Order of the Laurel, with all things appertaining thereunto, including all privileges, immunities, freedoms, emoluments and rights as any other member of the aforenamed Order possesses or shall possess in all times coming.  And further, we did invest and endow the said Raziya with arms by Letters Patents in the form following: Purpure, a serpent in annulo Or and on a chief argent three ravens sable.  If anyone should, with rash daring, break, defy or disregard our Royal Will as stated herein, let him be cursed and removed from all fellowship of good and righteous men and women, like Dathan and Abiron, whom the earth opening its jaws swallowed up; let him share the double disaster with Heliodorus and Antiochus, the one being coerced with a sharp blow and the other struck down by a curse that set his body putrifying and swarming with vermin; but as far as worldly law is concerned, he shall pay one hundred coins of silver to those he has harmed.  This charter was made in the fifty-second year since the founding of the Society, and read aloud in our Court upon the 10th day of February in our Crown Province of Ostgardr, so that none may claim ignorance of its contents.

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