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My book projects aim to bring illuminated manuscripts back to publishing, creating beautifully illustrated editions of the great legendary, poetic, and heroic texts of the medieval world.

I'm working to build a whole collection of fine edition books that ground the great texts of the Western canon fully in the artistic world in which they were born, to bring the tales alive with the language and aesthetic spirit of their own times.

I began in 2024 with Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon tale of an even older Scandinavian hero-king.

Proceeding into (though not exhaustively through) the wonder-tales of the far north, in 2025 I undertook the Poetic Edda in Old Norse alongside a modern English translation.

Along the way I'm building projects for artists, students, and makers of all sorts, resources like the Arthurian program that will give them everything they need and walk with them through the immensely fulfilling process of creating their own majestic illuminated book.

Next up is the Gawain and the Green Knight project we're launching on Kickstarter in just a few days. This classic Arthurian tale will launch us into a whole series of subsequent projects like "Parzival" and "Le Morte d'Arthur". This will be an absolute gem in any home library or collection! Check it out and sign up to be notified when it launches at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tamburngospels/gawain-and-the-green-knight-an-arthurian-wonder-tale

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