Typophile - St. John's Bible: beautiful calligraphy & illumination - Comments

And you can have your own

BruceS63 — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:52:42 -0700

And you can have your own copy for $115,0000, which I know is pocket change for you type designers.

Went to the exhibition in

metalfoot — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:56:47 -0700

Went to the exhibition in Winnipeg (still on until June 8). What an amazing bit of work! Was neat to see the process by which it happened as well.

PBS (I think) did a

Don McCahill — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:31:54 -0700

PBS (I think) did a wonderful show on this book while it was still in production. (For those who don’t know, this was a Bible that has been hand lettered, and richly illuminated, in the same way that Bibles were done before that Gutenberg fellow messed everything up.

St. John's Bible: beautiful calligraphy & illumination

BruceS63 — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:12:16 -0700

If you haven’t already seen it, check it out:

http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/see/images.htm

You might be able to catch it in person, too. See the Exhibition listings:

http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/Exhibitions/default.htm

Enjoy!