Meetings with remarkable manuscripts / Christopher de Hamel
2016, First Edition. [London], UK : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #402607
ISBN: 9780241003046
Physical description; v, 632 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-610) and indexes. Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, 2017. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for non fiction, 2016. 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; Bible Manuscripts, Latin. Manuscripts, European. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. Antiques, Collecting. Manuscripts, Medieval. Manufactures Social aspects. Museology & heritage studies. History of art. Conservation, restoration & care of artworks. Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks. European history. Christianity.
Price: €45.00