Okay, so I'm working on a situation where my covenant will have to deal with a shortage of vellum for lab texts.
It's probably not necessary, but It made me wonder how large lab texts should be. Is one page per level sufficiently large?
I'm trying to get an idea of how much vellum a covenant might use, to figure out how many sheep, goats, etc. are needed and how constrained they'd be.
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I use one page per level for lab texts.
But the length of a summa and a tractatus is so variable as to be essentially random. This really came home to me when I found a copy of Michael Psellos’s book on demons. According to RoP:I, this is one of, if not the, best books in Mythic Europe on Infernal Lore, and it’s so short you could easily read it in a day.
So there, I cannot help you.
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TME, page 103 says approximately 1 page per level.
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We have ways taken Lab texts to be just a few pages. This comes from having a number of organic and inorganic chemists (IRL) as players. We referenced the length of old Germanic chemical synthesis methods from various journals. These would have 10-15 pages of a paper then 2 discussion the method and a few for the results.
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From Transforming Mythic Europe:
It takes a moderately skilled scribe one day to copy four pages of text, and another day to tidy up and provide basic illumination for those same pages. A typical tractatus consists of about twenty quarternions (160 pages) and takes about a season of continuous work to copy (80 days: scribes do not work on Sundays or holidays). A typical summa has twenty five pages per point of its Level. Since scribes typically spend only half their time actually scribing and illuminating, the estimation of a year to copy a Bible is about right (it is a Summa on Theology of Level 10 and a Summa on Church Lore of Level 3; approximately 325 pages and therefore 163 days of continuous work).
So, 160 pages per Tractatus (any Quality), and 25 pages per Level of a Summa.
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