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A Carolingian Evangeliary

Jun 21, 2025

Christiaan, an artist from the Netherlands, has written to let us know his use of the Gospels from the Open English Bible in his evangeliary according to the ‘Carolingian’ style of western medieval bookbinding (c. 800-1100).

His blog at his site Monnikenwerk has a great description of the binding process with pictures.

Christiaan explains that the bindings are natural-colored deer leather on wooden boards (historically oak), as would have been used in monasteries of that period.

Carolingian Evangeliary page with text

The text is laid out in a Carolingian Minuscule font called Pfeffer Mediaeval which was created by Dr. Pferrer. This is the ancestor of our modern Antiqua.

Carolingian Evangeliary page with contents

I am always amazed and humbled by the beautiful things people have made with the Open English Bible.

You should check out the rest of the Monnikwerk site as well for other projects and artworks.


Since the OEB is under the CC0 licence, you are free to use it in any way you think is appropriate, without requiring our permission and without being under any obligations to us. The OEB is free for you to use by yourself, in your community or in a mainstream publication. It is always a great feeling when someone uses the OEB in their own work!


2022.1 release of OEB

Jul 12, 2022

We’re pleased to announce a new release of the OEB, including the New Testament and Psalms and available from the front page of the Open English Bible website at http://openenglishbible.org

This is a small release, including various adjustments to improve naturalism of language and minor transcription errors.

We hope you like this release.


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