Pilgrimage: Ten Sacred Texts

For the March 21st Sunday Seminar, let’s pilgrimage to see Ten Sacred Texts: “beautifully illustrated and produced texts attest to the strength of the faith of past peoples and their love of beauty.”  Try to “visit” all of these sites over the next couple of weeks.  Please bring something you discover in your visit to at least one of these Sacred Texts --  or introduce us to some other “beautifully illustrated and produced text” which interests you.  

1.     Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne, New York
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

2.     Nany’s Scroll, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

3.     Gutenberg Bible, Austin, Texas
or this link — Gutenberg Bible at Huntington.org

4.     Othman Koran, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Library of the Telyashayakh Mosque.

5.     Ostromir Gospels, St. Petersburg, Russia
National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg

6.     Sarajevo Haggadah, Bosnia-Herzegovina
National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in central Sarajevo
A great article here from the New Yorker on the human story connected with the Sarajevo Haggadah

7.     Dead Sea Scrolls, Jerusalem, Israel
Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

8.     Diamond Sutra, London, England
British Library, London.
www.bl.uk

9.     Luttrell Psalter, London, England
British Library, London

10.  Book of Kells, Dublin, London
Trinity College Library, Dublin
www.tcd.ie/Library