5 Responses to “St John’s Bible”

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1. 

   Serena

   On May 25, 2005 at 11:03 am

   My inner manuscript whore is getting indecently excited about this …!

2. 

   timsamoff

   On May 25, 2005 at 7:05 pm

   Hey, Maggi… If you haven’t yet, head over and read Gordon’s (aka RLP’s) latest:
   http://www.christiancentury.org/article.php?articleid=294

3. 

   Hugh A

   On May 25, 2005 at 8:39 pm

   This appears to be the same St John’s which the then minister from my church went to on sabbatical to study the place of the Communion in worship. This was, of course, a Baptist minister going to a Roman Catholic university to study with the monks; exceptionally radical for the mid 70’s.

4. 

   Nancy

   On May 27, 2005 at 5:02 am

   hi maggi. I’ve been visiting your blog for awhile but this is my first comment. Today, I had the pleasure of seeing the first public exhibit of The St. John’s Bible at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. It was amazing. I invite you over to my blog to read my report.

5. 

   James Pepper

   On April 8, 2006 at 12:25 am

   Maggi: For the past 18 years I have been making by hand an illuminated manuscript of the Bible. I completed the New Testament in 1995 and in 1997 Archbishop Carey sent to me a Bible to correct my text, through the Liturgical Commission and through the Bible societies. Ian Cundy also was very encouraging. I have a blessing from John Paul II and the Archbishop of York. It’s the Authorized Version.
   I do it all by hand without computers and my set of Gospels which I just completed, again, has more illuminations in it than Saint Johns has in their entire Bible.
   You can Google my website “The Pepper Bible and see videos made on my work by CBS, ABC and UMTV.
   That’s right I am a Methodist, was an Episcopalian/Anglican when I started.
   I write when I am inspired, each page layout is unique. I wrote the Gospels like a Book of Hours and that is why it has 310 illuminated pages. Luke has 25 full page carpet pages. Luke is an insular Celtic manuscript, where most of the verse initials are inhabited. John is mostly French manuscript styles and an interlinear polyglot in chapters 18 and 19 in Latin Greek and English, I used the Complutensian Polyglot of Accala 1514-1517. Matthew is mostly Saxon, Norman, English, and Northern European styles and Mark spans 1700 years of manuscript illumination. And of course my own designs. It is a reinterpretation of what was done historically and it gave me an insight into the monks who did this in the past that cannot be appreciated unless you share their experience.
   I have it all photographed, I got advice on that from the Getty and the Met. I am looking for a publisher if anyone has suggestions.
   Sincerely,
   James G. Pepper
   Antiquarius Domini