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The Illuminated Gospel of St John

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92 points ycombinete | 1 comments | 19 Apr 25 02:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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AStonesThrow ◴[23 Apr 25 02:43 UTC] No.43768206[source]▶
It only costs £35! Here I was expecting hundreds, thousands!

How elaborate or precious can it be, if this costs about the same as a typical mass-produced Bible?

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1. giomasce ◴[23 Apr 25 05:13 UTC] No.43768813[source]▶
AFAIU it is essentially mass-produced (pun intended?). The master is carefully handwritten, all the others are copies taken with an industrial (if high quality) process.

EDIT: That's not meant to be dismissive of it. It looks like a very beautifut book, and I'll probably buy one.