I wen't to the New York Public Library yesterday to see the Three Faiths exhibit with the iconic star, one of the earliest editions of the Gutenberg Bible. It was large in stature, but on the inside it was a pretty dull. Compared to the many of illuminated Torahs, Qurans, and Bibles that surrounded it.
Everything else livened up the room, while the Gutenberg Bible really just kept it plane and simple. It reeked of the idea of quantity over quality bull-crap (which really isn't that bad since how much help it has done with the spread of literacy, with the exception of Morgantown, West Virginia). But like President George Bush Jr. once said, "One of the great things about books is sometime there are some fantastic pictures." Which I whole heartedly agree, for the case of this exhibit. I enjoyed the illuminated hand madd scripts with how unique they were.
My personal preference was The Gospel Book of Landevennec, if it was mass produced, I am pretty sure we would have some of these insanely awesome pictures in our Bible today. I am not sure what is pictured, but I believe it to be a Bird-Man, an Alien, and Werewolf (very Twilighty before it's time)
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