January 15, 2009

This video introduces you to the latest global project to emerge from the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota — the first illuminated, handwritten Bible since the invention of the printing press.

For our program, "Preserving Words and Worlds" (speakingoffaith.org/programs/2009/preserving-words), Krista Tippett interviewed Fr. Columba Stewart in the museum space of the Hill Library, surrounded by the lush colors and lavish script of the St. John's Bible Project. This first illustrated Bible in modern times is being spearheaded by the foremost Western calligrapher and Queen Elizabeth's scribe, Donald Jackson.