In 1998, the Saint John's Abbey and University commissioned calligrapher Donald Jackson to create the first hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible since the Middle Ages. The resulting Saint John's Bible is divided into seven volumes and is two feet tall by three feet wide when open, with 160 illuminations.
I saw parts of it in an exhibition at the Walters Art Gallery last year.
A video about the Bible from the Pepperdine University.
Jackson discusses creation of the bible.
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