One of the many striking things about the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit is the set of sample pages from the new, hand-made illuminated bible currently being crafted by artists, scribes, calligraphers, and other experts.
The new pages range from really pretty to kind of creepy to a bit psychedelic.
However, I found myself thinking as I looked at these new pages, and then at the reproduction Gutenberg bible and the old manuscript pages….like the ones I’ve been seeing in museums for the past few decades…”Wow…these things must have looked really great when they were new…”
Odd, that, because I really don’t, nor, I imagine, do most people, think of illuminated manuscripts as something new. Maybe I’ll go back to the gallery in Bethlehem and get one of the cool illuminations I’ve been admiring.
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