The Greek minuscule scripts of the Byzantine Empire are exceptionally beautiful, and I’ve been (feebly) trying to learn how to write them properly. However I can’t seem to find any sources but indicate what sorts of pens were used for writing it.
This is the writing system I’m talking about. As you can see, all the lines are roughly the same thickness, which I suspect means that is was NOT written using a reed pen because they tend to produce scripts with both very thick and very thin sections, which is what you see in the earlier Byzantine uncial scripts. Maybe it was written using quills?
Can anyone help me out?
If you look at evangelist portraits from surviving middle Byzantine gospel books, you can get a good sense of what scribes used: quills that were sharpened with pen knives.
