10th of Sep ‘10
Fri 12:23
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St. John’s Bible
St. John’s Bible is an impressive take on the illuminated manuscripts of the past. I must confess that I’ve had the desire to make something like this as well, but was deterred, rightfully so, by the amount of work and knowledge necessary to put it out.
Back in the 1990s, Donald Jackson observed the monks of Saint John’s Abbey processing with their Book of the Gospels for Sunday Mass, and he recognized the importance of “their book.” To create a Bible that would capture the beauty and tradition of centuries of liturgy and carry it into the future—that is the vision that united a calligrapher in Wales with a group of Benedictine monks in Minnesota.
It really is a work of art in its own right, and something I admire not only for its beauty, but its greater vision.