[EKStationers] Greetings

[Helen Pinto]

Elwynne wrote:
> Thanks for
> showing us some of what you learned in the vade mecum class.  By any
> chance
> did the teacher have a bibliography/resources to share with the class?

 That was either me or Elianora Mathewes- we both taught classes on the
 subject at Pennsic.  We both worked from the same source materials.

 I have attached my hand-out to this e-mail.  It doesn't include the
 pictures, since those were added the old-fashioned way.  However, I can
 point you at the sources.  The most useful sources in the bibliography are
 the Michele Brown book (the picture of velvet-covered vade mecum (BL MS Add
 17358) which started me off is in there, under "V"), the first Professor
 Carey monograph (which contains lots of pictures of pages from assorted 
vade
 mecums, including my favorite- the urine sample chart, plus a picture of 
the
 one at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, closed, with its slipcase), and 
the
 book from the Cloisters exhibit (which included several pages, a small
 rolled chart, and a complete vade mecum (on p 193) whose cover I'm 
currently
 working on).  The second monograph is more useful for those interested in
 the content, not the construction.  This URL will take you to the ROE
 vade mecum, opened, which is held in the Crawford collection at the
 observatory.

http://www.roe.ac.uk/roe/library/crawford/index.html

BL MS Add 17358 was used as a model for the class.  Because glue was not
 setting up at Pennsic, the students laced the cord through the covers
 instead and ran it under the sewing at the top to secure it in place.  They
 also received a page/cover template.  To make one, take a piece of
 letter-sized paper (if you trim an inch off the long side, you will be 
close
 to the actual size of 17358) and fold up the bottom to within about an inch
 of the top.  Fold the left and right in to divide it in thirds.  Open those
 two folds up and trim the left and right panels even with the bottom edge.
 Trim the centre panel to form a tab.  The top centre panel is also your
 cover template- mark a few sewing holes in the tab area.

 If the list should strip the attachments, write and I'll try other
 arrangements.

                     -Aidan
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