An illuminated ‘T’ inspired by the Bury Bible

An illuminated ‘T’ inspired by the Bury Bible

by | Dec 15, 2013 | Recent Work

The shape of this letter B is taken from the Bury Bible. This is a large twelfth century hand written Bible, illuminated with gold leaf. Each page measured 52.5 x 35 cm, which was just about the largest size page that could be made from a whole calfskin at the time....