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Requiem

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The Latin text to a Requiem Mass (Mozart or Faure or Verdi probably, I actually don't remember whose I used) written out by me with a William Mitchell dip calligraphy pen.

The pen holds enough ink only for a few strokes - you have to refill it carefully sometimes more than once for a single letter, or sometimes once for a whole word.

The whole thing took me about a week of spare time in 1992. It didn't scan very well, sorry original is A3 (tabloid) and does not fit on my scanner.

I don't mind non-commercial use (e.g. manipulations) as long as you let me know first. I have a png file at slightly higher resolution than this.

There's more calligraphy on my website, www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures…
and more in my gallery here of course.

This image was used on the front page of Time Magazine in 2006.


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blege22's avatar

What an amazing work! Did you write a specific historical form of the letters, or did you write how you like it most?