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A treasured anthology is being illuminated and copied by quill. What is it, and who is the chief calligrapher?
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#95698. Asked by queproblema. (May 15 08 4:17 PM)
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Arpeggionist
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Among others, I expect the Dead Sea Scrolls fit that bill, but the names of the top researchers there excape my memory.
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queproblema
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Well, sort of....
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author
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The quill pen was used in Qumran, Judea to write some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and then introduced into Europe by around 700 AD. It was used in 1787 to write and sign the Constitution of the United States of America.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill
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queproblema
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This isn't in Judea. It isn't the Dead Sea scrolls, but that's closer than the Constitution.
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author
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What about this one?
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Beginning in 1970, master calligrapher Donald Jackson expressed in media interviews his lifetime dream of creating an illuminated Bible. Following a Saint John's-sponsored calligraphy presentation at the Newberry Library in Chicago in 1995, Jackson discussed a handwritten Bible with Fr. Eric Hollas, OSB, former executive director of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Between 1996 and 1997, Saint John's explored the feasibility of the Bible project, Jackson created first samples, and theologians developed the illumination schema. The Saint John’s Bible was officially commissioned in 1998 and funding opportunities were launched. The public was introduced to the project in 1999 and is scheduled to be completed in 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John%27s_Bible
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