Donald Jackson (calligrapher)

Donald Jackson, born in 1938 in Lancashire, England, is a British calligrapher, official scribe and calligrapher to the Crown Office of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Jackson is artistic director of The Saint John's Bible, a recent, hand-written and illuminated Grand Bible commissioned by the Benedictine Monastery of Saint John's in Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. He is the author of The Story Of Writing (1981) and The Calligrapher's Art.

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