"FOX News aired a story on Christmas Day featuring The Saint Johns Bible and the Heritage Edition. FOX News religious correspondent Lauren Green reported on the making of first handwritten illuminated Bible in 500 years and told of its importance as a religious and spiritual undertaking. She interviewed Jim Triggs, executive director of the Heritage Program, who visited FOX News in New York earlier in December. "
At Legacies 2005, the international calligraphy conference held in Dallas, Texas, one of the evening programs featured The Saint John's Bible. Well, a traveling version, a copy, but we were able to see up close the hand that was developed for this work, along with the amazing art work and illuminations. Too stunning for words.
If you're lucky to live near Collegeville, MN, you can visit the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library to see a small exhibit. If you can't get to MN, you can read all about the project and can see the Bible here.
I was able to see some of the pages from this work a couple years ago at the Minneapolis Art Institute.
ReplyDeleteStunning!