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Friday, February 20, 2009
A Night at the Movies: The Making of the St. John’s Bible
From John Neal, Bookseller: Donald Jackson, the longtime scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Crown office, and his staff used age-old calligraphic techniques to create a modern manuscript: egg yolks, gold, silver, and platinum in the illuminations; goose quills and hand-ground ink on carefully selected calf-skin vellum for the text.
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