List of tools.The implements of scribes and illuminators. The following is a list of the principal tools and materials required by the illuminator of manuscripts, including those which have been already described[[284]].
Pens, pencils and chalk of various sorts, as described above.
Brushes made of minever, badger and other kinds of hair.
Grinding-slabs and rubbers of porphyry or other hard stone, and a bronze mortar.
Sharp penknife and palette knife.
Rulers, and a metal ruling-pen.
Dividers to prick out the guiding-lines of the text.
Scissors for shaping the gold leaf.
Burnishers, stamps, and stili for ornamenting the gold.
Small horns to hold black and red ink; see fig. [53] on page [209].