Baskadia

The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel

• The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
  

• Christopher de Hamel
  

• Page: 624
  

• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  

• ISBN: 9780525559412
  

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  

Download eBook

Downloading free ebooks for android The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts (English Edition)

The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.

the people behind a thousand years of medieval manuscripts
The manuscripts club : the people behind a thousand years of medieval manuscripts / Christopher de Hamel. De Hamel, Christopher, 1950- (author.).
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial 
THE MANUSCRIPTS CLUB: THE PEOPLE BEHIND A
Book. THE MANUSCRIPTS CLUB: THE PEOPLE BEHIND A THOUSAND YEARS OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS (2023)by DE HAMEL, CHRISTOPHER · All Copies · Details · Related.
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscript Club review
In Remarkable Manuscripts, he took 12 manuscript books and wove their history in engaging accounts, allied with personal vignettes. The 
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial 
Fascinating Details of Medieval Manuscripts
Over the last several months, I've been working my way through Christopher De Hamel's book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve 
Christopher De Hamel: books, biography, latest update
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval ManuscriptsThe Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousa…
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys
Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the listener into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand 
Medieval Craftsmen Scribes & Illuminators /anglais
Customers who viewed this item also viewed · Scribes and Illuminators (Medieval Craftsmen Series) · The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of 
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de
'An endlessly fascinating and enjoyable book' Neil MacGregor 'Full of delights' Tom Stoppard An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world - the most 
《The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a 
Medieval Manuscripts : Books : Items that check out
Treharne, Elaine, author. Book, 2021. Cover image of Manuscripts Club : The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts. Place Hold.
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their 
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts (Hardcover). By Christopher de Hamel. $50.00. Coming Soon - Available for Pre 
The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts.