Silver Lute, granted to Lady A'kasha Machiavelli by Stein and Gemma, ruling Prince and Princess of Avacal. The scroll is created in an elaborate design modeled on the antiphonal music-books of the 15th and 16th centuries. The colors of gold, red and blue are specific to those books and also chosen to highlight Avacal's territorial colors.

The primary text is executed in a secretarial batarde, with capitals of the same century. The template text was found in the same Italian graduals, and can be dated to 1560. I chose this text style for its fanciful, elegant qualities as well as its trailing spires, to mesh with the details around the versal capitals. The illumination style draws from many sources; in particular three Italian graduals of that period. The elaborately decorated versal capitals are period to the piece, although the fanciful griffon and immediate capital "T" are an extrapolation of earlier, more decorated works of the era, typically used in gradual title pages and not on individual leaves of music. In homage to the lands of Avacal, the musical score detailed on the piece (within the stanzas) is the modern song 'O Canada,' anthem of that nation. The primary text of this document was assigned to me by Countess Inga the Unfettered, in commemoration of the event. The date was left off to allow for flexibility of awarding, to be filled in by scribes on-site when the scroll was presented to the recipient.