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THERE are just over two weeks left to check out the Marks of Genius exhibition at the new Weston Library in Oxford.
The exhibition explores how people of genius have left their mark on papyrus, parchment and paper over the centuries. Christian items on display include: The Gutenberg Bible - the first major book printed in Europe using movable type.
Dated from the 1450s, only 48 copies survive and the Bodleian holds one of them.
The Geneva Bible, which was presented to Elizabeth I as a New Year's Day gift in 1584.
This lavishly bound bible is embroidered in gold and silver on red velvet.
The Kennicott Bible - a fine Hebrew Bible from 1476, open at a beautifully illustrated page from the Psalms.
A medieval map of the Holy Land, with inscriptions about key places in the life and death of Christ.
St Margaret's Gospel lectionary. Beautifully illustrated in gold, this miniature book was a book for everyday devotion and was the favourite book of Margaret, an 11 th century queen of Scotland.
A Commentary on Isaiah by St Jerome in the 4 th century with a tiny self-portrait in the corner of the manuscript.
Les Proverbes de Salomon one of more than fifty surviving books of religious and secular texts which the calligrapher Esther Inglis sent to persons of status, influence and wealth.
Apocalypsis- a 15-page book of woodcuts by the artist Dürer illustrating the book of Revelation.
The earliest surviving manuscript of the Rule of St Benedict, a rule of life developed in 540 that became the principal monastic code of Western Europe.
Elizabeth I's Latin translation of an Italian sermon, known as Sermo de Christo, showing her translation and calligraphy skills.
;The display is open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm and Sundays, 11am to 5pm.
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