Mary just posted a video about the production of the St. John’s Bible out at the university. The Bible is lovely. Here are a scattering of images that St. John’s posted on its website when they announced its publication:
Suffering Servant, Donald Jackson, Copyright 2006, The Saint Johns Bible and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Saint Johns University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Here are some lovely images from various Medieval codexes. According to the Brittanica (https://www.britannica.com/topic/book-of-hours-prayer-book),
Book of hours, devotional book widely popular in the later Middle Ages. The book of hours began to appear in the 13th century, containing prayers to be said at the canonical hours in honour of the Virgin Mary. The growing demand for smaller such books for family and individual use created a prayerbook style enormously popular among the wealthy. The demand for the books was crucial to the development of Gothic illumination. These lavishly decorated texts, of small dimensions, varied in content according to their patrons’ desires.
