"Two years later, the monks agreed to an even larger project,
commissioning Mr. Jackson to handwrite and illustrate the whole Old and
New Testaments at a cost of $4.5 million (underwritten by profits from
the sale of printed versions of the handwritten Bible and by the
generosity of donors ranging from a Boy Scout troop to the Target
Corporation). The project would require that Mr. Jackson collaborate
with a team of several calligraphers, to whom he would teach a script
that he had developed just for this purpose. And a commission of monks
would have to approve each of the 160 illustrations…"