![]() ![]() And it's the entire Catholic Bible.Ī copy of the Saint John’s Bible went on display at the Divinity School from 2019-2020. The way that the people who created The Saint John’s Bible describe it is “America's Book of Kells.” So, it's an illuminated manuscript, which means it's written by hand and decorated with gold and color. Q: How do you describe The Saint John’s Bible to someone who is unfamiliar? “I realized that I needed to be able to articulate how to look at the lettering, not just the images.” “The Saint John’s Bible led me down this rabbit hole of contemporary calligraphy and lettering arts,” Homrighausen says. It focuses on the Song of Songs, a biblical collection of love poems. ![]() His second, most recent book, “ Planting Letters and Weaving Lines,” examines the calligraphy comprising The Saint John’s Bible. They were less interested in the words, even though the text is handwritten and took years for a whole team of people to scribe it,” says Homrighausen, now a doctoral student in Duke’s graduate program in religion. “When I was a docent, people would only ask to see the images. Homrighausen's first book about The Saint John’s Bible focused on its illustrations, but he wanted to spend more time with the letters themselves. And then another.Ī modern illuminated manuscript, with the last page completed in 2011, this Bible was created by a team of scribes and illustrators commissioned by Saint John’s Abbey and University. Jonathan Homrighausen was so moved when he first saw The Saint John's Bible as a student docent in Santa Clara University’s archives and special collections, he wrote his own book about it. ![]()
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