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Book history --- Bible --- History --- Publication and distribution --- Manuscripts --- Livre --- Histoire --- Imprimerie --- Manuscripts. --- History.

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"This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history -- and sometimes about the modern world too. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with remarkable manuscripts conveys the fascination and excitement of encountering some of the greatest works of art in our culture which, in the originals, are to most people completely inaccessible."--

Manuscripts, European. --- Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Painting, Medieval --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- European manuscripts --- 091 =71 --- 091 "04/14" --- 091 =71 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Latijn --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Latijn --- 091 "04/14" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Middeleeuwen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Middeleeuwen --- Book history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Manuscripts, European --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval

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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. But 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 were participants in 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 which 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. --Penguin Books

091 <017.2> --- 091 <017.2> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Private verzamelingen --- Book history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- anno 500-1499

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The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in European history. It inspired the largest pilgrim site in medieval Europe and many works of literature from Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' to T. S. Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral' and Anouilh's 'Becket'. In a brilliant piece of historical detective work, Christopher de Hamel here identifies the only surviving relic from Becket's shrine: the Anglo-Saxon Psalter which he cherished throughout his time as Archbishop of Canterbury, and which he may even have been holding when he was murdered. Beautifully illustrated and published to coincide with the 850th anniversary of the death of Thomas Becket, this is an exciting rediscovery of one of the most evocative artefacts of medieval England.