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Instructions
Contact officials within the SCA and have a search conducted to see if the scroll has already been created but has not yet arrived at the necessary destination. Since SCA scribes are volunteers, the scribe assigned the scroll may be carrying a completed or nearly completed scroll in his working papers.
Contact your local scribe. He or she will have attended workshops and probably has a handbook that delineates procedures for creating backlog scrolls. Please be patient. A good scroll is an artwork and should not be hurried. Provide the scribe or your seneschal with all necessary information for creating the scroll such as name of the occasion, the issuing official, specialized art items such as your coat of arms, your legal name and SCA name or the names of the person who needs the scroll, and the date of the award.
If you are a scribe with a backlog, make a list of the scrolls that need to be created. Communicate with fellow scribes to avoid duplication Track down officials who may need to sign each scroll as part of the creation process, such as former royalty. Create a series of blanks for similar scrolls, such as award of arms. Keep record of the scrolls you have completed and work closely with seneschals and other officials to get the scrolls to the recipients.
Set aside a specific time to work as a scribe. Although SCA scribes are volunteers, and scribing is an art form, you have shouldered an obligation to provide beautifully illuminated scrolls to be presented to members. Keep copies of the official wording for common scrolls on hand as well as examples of medieval script, vocabulary and art work.
Outline the scroll in ordinary handwriting or on a word processor. Block in the location of the artwork and organization of the blocks of text. Write the calligraphy. Add the artwork. Track down the necessary officials and get signatures. Deliver the scroll to the correct presenting official, who will then present it to the individual.