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Sacrament an Alter: The Sacrament of the Altar – A Critical Edition with Translation

University of Exeter Press (2022)
234 x 156mm, 367pp

Work carried out: page design and make-up

‘Sacrament an Alter’ (The Sacrament of the Altar) is a Cornish patristic catena which appears in the Tregear Manuscript (BL Add. MS 46397). This is the first ever critical edition, despite being the longest surviving example of Cornish prose.

While we routinely typeset parallel editions, with the source text and translation on facing pages with matching page breaks, this project brought the challenge of presenting four simultaneous texts:

2024 Winner, Holyer an Gof Award (Non-Fiction)

The team at University of Exeter Press […] deserve great thanks […] as do BBR Design for their exceptional typesetting.

The author in the acknowledgements

It was a pleasing coincidence that the final layout of the spreads had more than a passing resemblance to the use of the Cornish flag on the cover: