Russian+Calligraphy+and+Illumination

=Medieval Russia -- Calligraphy and Illumination= This includes calligraphic hands, illumination information, computer fonts (because people are always asking me), and whatever else I can scrounge up.

Russian and Cyrillic computer fonts

 * [|Stephen's Cyrillic font links]
 * [|Free downloadable Cyrillic fonts]
 * [|List of fonts on DMOZ]

Scroll examples
A scroll made by Geneviéve d'Evreux http://web.archive.org/web/20050421023207/http://www.ipass.net/~lindap/russian/VladsKnighting.jpg Pages from a Russian manuscipt: [|Manuscript Page 1] [|Manuscript Page 2]

Comments on making the above Russian Scroll from Geneviéve d'Evreux "A friend (Mistress Francesca la Curiosa) sat down with the text and sounded everything out and gave me a phonetic transliteration I felt I could trust - using only letters that we could find in the Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander. I really didn't want to use a pseudo-script and there wasn't time for a real translation." "The funny part was that I had a harder time keeping the Russian letters out of my head when I did the gloss than vice versa. I switched back and forth so I wouldn't risk messing up what I had already written."

[Note that the Gospel of Tsar Ivan Alexander is actually Bulgarian, not Russian, but the Old Cyrillic alphabet is the same. -Sofya]