Publication
Collegeville, Minnesota : Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at Saint John's University, 3BM Television Production with BBC Wales, 2005. One disc, 49 min.
Call number
DVD / Front Desk-Oversize
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Named Work: Bible : Saint John's Bible :
Description: the St. John's Bible: a monumental achievement and historic undertaking the St. John's Bible is a major artistic, cultural and spiritual endeavor. It is the first hand written and illuminated Bible Commission since the invention of the printing press.
Donald Jackson, World renowned calligrapher and illuminator, in collaboration with artists and theologians has woven word and image and this once In a millennium project.
The long time scribe to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Crown office used age old calligraphic techniques to create a modern manuscript: egg yolks, gold, Silver and platinum in the illuminations; goose quills and hand ground ink on carefully selected calfskin vellum for the text. The imagery incorporates symbols as diverse as Navajo basket weaving patterns two microscopic views of today's viruses, even cosmological images inspired by the Hubble space telescope.
Experience for yourself the story of the most extensive scribal commission in the world since the end of the Middle Ages, a story that has not happened for a long time and probably will never happen again. -- from box
FY2015 / jvsy
Description: the St. John's Bible: a monumental achievement and historic undertaking the St. John's Bible is a major artistic, cultural and spiritual endeavor. It is the first hand written and illuminated Bible Commission since the invention of the printing press.
Donald Jackson, World renowned calligrapher and illuminator, in collaboration with artists and theologians has woven word and image and this once In a millennium project.
The long time scribe to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Crown office used age old calligraphic techniques to create a modern manuscript: egg yolks, gold, Silver and platinum in the illuminations; goose quills and hand ground ink on carefully selected calfskin vellum for the text. The imagery incorporates symbols as diverse as Navajo basket weaving patterns two microscopic views of today's viruses, even cosmological images inspired by the Hubble space telescope.
Experience for yourself the story of the most extensive scribal commission in the world since the end of the Middle Ages, a story that has not happened for a long time and probably will never happen again. -- from box
FY2015 / jvsy
Library's review
49 min. documentary in English of the process of illuminating the Saint John's Bible and the calligraphy of Donald Jackson. Moving and beautiful.
Physical description
4.75 inches
Description
The longtime scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Crown office used age-old calligraphic techniques to create a modern manuscript: egg yolks, gold, silver, and platinum in the illuminations; goose quills and hand-ground ink on carefully selected calf-skin vellum for the text. Experience for yourself the story of the most extensive scribal commission in the world since the end of the Middle Ages, a story that has not happened for along time and probably will never happen again. Copyright 2005. A 3BM TeleVision Production for BBC Wales and Saint John's University with support from Target Corporation.
Language
Original language
English