Saint John's Bible Revisited

Our friend Father Ed from our days living in Santa Barbara is visiting here overnight — he flew out from his home now in New York to perform a wedding up in Placerville. After sharing vacation sketches and photos (ours of New York and Europe; his of Alaska and the Boundary Waters) we somehow started talking about the Saint John’s Bible, the amazing calligraphic creation that I was fortunate enough to see in exhibition last summer. So we watched the DVD I got last year about scribe Donald Jackson and the creation of this hand-illuminated bible. Looking at the project’s website, I can’t tell how close the project is to completion, but happily for Father Ed, there is an exhibition of folios of pages from the Prophets volume currently showing in New York. For anybody who is in the area, it is well worth going to — the exhibition runs through November 27.