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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club (Hardcover)
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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club (Hardcover)
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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. 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.
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