Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

✍ Scribed by De Hamel, Christopher

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd;Allen Lane
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

"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."--

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction --
The Gospels of Saint Augustine --
The Codex Amiatinus --
The Book of Kells --
The Leiden Aratea --
The Morgan Beatus --
Hugo Pictor --
The Copenhagen psalter --
The Carmina Burana --
The Hours of Jeanne de Navarre --
The Hengwrt Chaucer --
The Visconti Semideus --
The Spinola hours.

✦ Subjects

Antiques, Collecting;Buchmalerei;Handschrift;Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval;Manuscripts, European;Manuscripts, Medieval;Schriftdenkmal;;Bildband;Bible -- Manuscripts, Latin

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