[Loch-Ruadh] Ask Bice....

[Chris Harper]

At 09:24 PM 8/3/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>What about the book you bought today?

>>about the book she bought today!!  Maybe she will bring it to the next
>>S&I after Lugnuts.

Yippee! and Yes!     At least I hope it is as good a thing as I think for 
the price I paid.  It is about 16 by 12 inches and almost 2 inches 
thick.  You know, big coffee table size but this is one not everyone would 
want on their coffee table.  It is titled, "Old Testament Miniatures", A 
Medieval Picture Book.  It has 283 paintings, from the Creation to the 
Story of David.  It is reproduced from the Illuminated Book belong to The 
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, with additional leaves from the 
collections of The Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, and Dr Peter and Irene 
Ludwig, Aachen.

I would hate to buy it by the pound; it must weigh at least 10 or 15 
lbs.  The thing that really made me buy it was that in addition to all the 
gobble-de-gook at the front of the book, when you get back to the plates, 
each one is numbered and has a short write up about what it is and who all 
the people are supposed to be.  Some of the pictures are included in the 
set of prints that I bought from the Sable Scroll in the past.  Doesn't 
matter;  Dana and Asa can tell you that I love books and treasure them very 
highly; and now I have a goodie,,,,,,,,,I think.

Asa doesn't check her voice mail <G> or I am sure I would have heard from 
her by now.  I called her this afternoon soon as I got home.  Oh well, 
maybe  she will tell me later if I did good.

I will be glad to bring it to our next illuminators meeting.

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that I only paid $25.00 for it.   Good???????

Bicé