Saint John’s Bible

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Saint John’s Bible, illuminated English-language Bible (2011). It was notable for its incorporation of contemporary themes in its illustrations and for its use of both traditional and computer-based production techniques. Illuminated bibles, so called because of their lavish illustrations that incorporated gold or silver leaf, were specially commissioned during the European Middle Ages but were superseded in the 15th century by easily and widely disseminated printed Bibles. In the last decade of the 20th century, Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, U.S., commissioned the British calligrapher Donald Jackson, the senior scribe to Queen Elizabeth II, to participate in ...(100 of 234 words)