On Saturday, I had the opportunity to hear Brad Neary, Director of the Saint John's Bible Heritage Program, talk about the history of the Saint John's Bible. The first illuminated, hand written (caligraphy) Bible to be produced in over 500 years. Brad is passionate about this project and he kept an audience entralled for over an hour and a half. He had one volume of the Heritage set and attendees could see and touch the pages. It was a riveting talk and the photo does not even come close to the magnificence of the art. The photo is of the Beatitudes. If you have the opportunity to see this work at one of the
locations or the original pages at St. John's in Collegeville, it is worth your time. Very grateful for Brad's talk and the opportunity to see one of the volumes up close. You can find more information as well as page turning version of the Bible at their
website.
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On the website you can look at individual pages of the Heritage edition and examples of how they "fixed" problems when they missed a line - remember all handwritten with quills, so getting creative when a mistake occurred see below with the bird with a string to a dangling sentence that was missed. Pretty amazing!
On Saturday, I had the opportunity to hear Brad Neary, Director of the Saint John's Bible Heritage Program, talk about the history of the Saint John's Bible. The first illuminated, hand written (caligraphy) Bible to be produced in over 500 years. Brad is passionate about this project and he kept an audience entralled for over an hour and a half. He had one volume of the Heritage set and attendees could see and touch the pages. It was a riveting talk and the photo does not even come close to the magnificence of the art. The photo is of the Beatitudes. If you have the opportunity to see this work at one of the locations or the original pages at St. John's in Collegeville, it is worth your time. Very grateful for Brad's talk and the opportunity to see one of the volumes up close. You can find more information as well as page turning version of the Bible at their website..jpeg)
On the website you can look at individual pages of the Heritage edition and examples of how they "fixed" problems when they missed a line - remember all handwritten with quills, so getting creative when a mistake occurred see below with the bird with a string to a dangling sentence that was missed. Pretty amazing!
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