I was notified that my protege was going to be receiving a Silver Wheel. When I was arranging which event he'd get it at, I sent a quick email to Tyger Signet asking for the assignment. Which I got, so I decided which of the scroll blanks to use and started researching. The illuminator, Lorita DeSiena, helpfully wrote on the back what her inspiration piece was. A French hunting bible, Le Livre de la Chasse. I found some photos online although I don't think I found the exact piece she used. But it seemed to have 2 hands: early gothic, which I learned from doing Ryan's Mark scroll that I severely dislike that one, but it also had Textura Quadrata on some parts.
Some specific letters and nuances that are different. I traced the practice area onto a sheet, marked some lines (3mm, 5mm, 3mm) and made notes on top of the letters that were different in the exemplar from the book.
I had to decide where to put the order badge on the page. I kind of like putting it right in the middle so the words flow around it. I like that idea, but I wasn't 100% thrilled with how it looked where I had it. Maybe I could move it up to the lines that have less words so it all blocks out more evenly. But I went back to looking at pages from the hunting bible and saw that many of them had a puzzle letter in the upper left of text. I'm not doing that exactly, but what if I put the badge there instead? Ultimately I decided that the badge wouldn't look right there either, so I put it at the bottom under the text. I used a micropen and a circle template.
