RE: [Mid] [fwd] Calling All Scribes!

BTW, this is a wonderful article! I read it yesterday and I know I'm
going to see about contacting these people! ( no pun intended!).

Elfleda

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>
> In the 6/14/1999 issue of People magazine is an article about Donald
> Jackson
> (calligrapher to Queen Elizabeth), who is undertaking the "first
> complete,
> handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned since the printing
> press
> was
> invented more than 500 years ago." The Bible has been commissioned by
> Saint
> John's University in Collegeville, Minn. (which, yes, has a monastary
> attached). The article says that the work will be 7 volumes, using
> handmade
> pigments (as well as gold, silver, platinum and copper) on vellum
> sheets
> 2
> feet tall by 32 inches wide, with Jackson doing the first volume
> himself
> and
> designing/overseeing the other 6. The project will take $3 million
> over
> six
> years and will "involve calligraphers and artisans from all over."
>
> No information on how to contact them, but I suppose you could call
> the
> university and ask how to get involved... ; )
>
>
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Received on Fri Jun 11 08:42:18 1999