The instruction prepared for a workshop connected with a medieval and modern calligraphy in the Erasmus+ project "Together with Arts".

1. Calligraphy - Past and Present
„Together With Arts”
1st Virtual Meeting
in
Szkoła Podstawowa nr 2
in Poznan, Poland

2. Carolingian Minuscule is a type of medieval script
developed in the late 8th and 9th centuries. It
follows a system of four lines. The letters are
uniform, regular and proportional in form. It has no
inter-letter connections. Sentences begin with capital
letters and are separated by a full stop or semicolon.
The use of additions and decorations is avoided in the
writing. The writing is simple, legible and regular.
Legibility, however, depends on the accuracy of the
writer. The spaces between words are clear. Of
course, the handwriting has undergone certain
changes over time such as the lengthening and
narrowing of the letters which eventually led to the
creation of the Gothic script.

3. Glossary
 A scribe - a person professionally engaged in the manual
transcription of documents and books.
 An illumination- it is a book that has been written by a
scribe; a scribe is a professional transcriber of documents
and books by hand.
 A border- a decorative ornamentation of fabric, relief,
painting or graphic composition in the form of a strip with
floral, geometric or figural ornamentation.
 Manuscript - handwritten text.
 Miniature books - hand-made illustrations in books.
 The term bullet journal
 Bullet Journal: an analogue way of organising your notes,
plans, deadlines, calendar system and list-making. A way
of creatively creating a planner that remembers the past,
organises the present and plans for the future (can include
mind maps, notes, quotes, sketches, etc.).

4. Instructions for a calligraphy workshop.
 Materials needed:
 Copy papers (working print out sheets to practice letters),
stiff/thick sheets (to print out 3 templates), a pen and ink
or brush pen, markers, pencil and eraser, ruler, thin black
pen, double sided tape or glue, school scissors-if the youth
want to make additional cut out decorations for the final
stage.

5. The workshop will be divided into three stages.
 Stage 1: Practicing Carolingian minuscule letters, words.
 We will practise writing letters, words and sentences, which
are necessary for further tasks
 Sentence: Calligraphy yesterday and today. We will learn
about the medieval Carolingian Minuscule.
 -to the medieval card.
 Line practice sheet
 Our words are: April, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, notes, important
events, etc. - to the bullet journal.

11. Stage 2: My page in a medieval style
 Preparation of one page inspired by medieval books rich in
illuminations.
 Young people receive a template (prepared for printing) in
which they will make a decorative border, initial, one letter
or a figurative sign in a designated field and write a
previously practised sentence.
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12. Stage 3: Using modern calligraphy to create one page of
Bullet Journal .
 Students are given a bullet journal page (dotted plus 1
extra)
 We create one page from the planner- a week with the
option of notes, important events, decorated in our own
individual way.
 At each stage students will be shown an example of the
completed page.