Illuminating work.(ENI) -- Donald Jackson, one of the foremost Western calligraphers, is producing a complete handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. , illuminated Bible for the first time since the invention of the printing press in Europe in the 15th century. Mr. Jackson is five years through the seven-year $3.4 million US ($3.8 million Cdn) project commissioned by the Benedictine Saint John's Abbey Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota is a Benedictine monastery affiliated with the American Cassinese Congregation. The Abbey was established following the arrival in the area of monks from the Saint Vincent Abbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1856. and the Saint John's University Saint John's University, main campus at Jamaica, New York City; Roman Catholic; coeducational; established 1870 as St. John's College. Its present name was adopted in 1954. It is the largest Catholic university in the country. A second campus (est. in Minnesota. From his scriptorium scrip·to·ri·um n. pl. scrip·to·ri·ums or scrip·to·ri·a A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records. in Wales, Mr. Jackson oversees scribes, artists, and craftsmen who work with him on the handwriting and illumination of the seven-volume, 1,150-page Bible. The hand-drawn illuminations depict Scripture from ancient and modern perspectives, including concepts of science, space and technology. |
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