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    The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club

    Christopher de Hamel

    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…

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    Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

    Christopher de Hamel

    Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts invites the reader to accompany the author on exclusive private visits to a dozen very varied collections, in different parts of the world, to discover twelve…

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    Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World

    Christopher de Hamel

    An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world’s leading experts.

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    A History of Illuminated Manuscripts

    Christopher de Hamel,Christopher de Hamel

    The standard work on the subject of the making of books.

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    Scribes and Illuminators

    Christopher de Hamel

    His survey ranges from the eleventh century through the golden age of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the luxurious manuscripts existing at the invention of printing.

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    Les Enluminures: Four Remarkable Manuscripts from the Middle Ages

    Christopher de Hamel

    Accompanying an exhibition in New York (17 - 23 October 2018) this lavishly illustrated publication explores four extraordinary books that have all survived from the Middle Ages.

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    The Book: A History of the Bible

    Christopher de Hamel

    A compelling, highly readable history of the Bible as a book.

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    The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket

    Christopher de Hamel

    The best-selling historian of medieval manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Becket

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    Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World

    Christopher de Hamel

    An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world’s leading experts.

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    Making Medieval Manuscripts

    Christopher de Hamel

    Based mainly on examples in the Bodleian Library, this lavishly illustrated account tells the story of manuscript production from the early Middle Ages to the high Renaissance. Each stage of…

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    The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket

    Christopher de Hamel

    Medieval manuscript historian and author of the widely acclaimed Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Beckett. The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral…

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    The Manuscripts Club

    Christopher de Hamel

    The people who made, saved and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

    The Manuscripts Club tells of…

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    L'Esprit Republicain: Droits Naturels Et Vertu Civique Chez Algernon Sidney

    Christopher de Hamel

    This book aims to show, by the rational reconstruction of the moral and political thought of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), that his use of the language of rights is not only…

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    Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World

    Christopher de Hamel

    An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world’s leading experts.

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    Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World

    Christopher de Hamel

    An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world’s leading experts.

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    Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World

    Christopher de Hamel

    An extraordinary exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world’s leading experts.

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    Shared Language: Vernacular Manuscriptsof the Middle Ages

    Laura Light,Christopher De Hamel

    The thirty-six manuscripts included in this catalogue provide viewers unique access to the authentic, spontaneous vision of people in medieval France, Italy, Germany, the Low Counties, and Britain.

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    Holy Hoaxes

    William Voelke, Christopher De Hamel

    This fascinating book tells the story of the building of William M. Voelkle's collection of fakes and forgeries of manuscript illumination. With thorough essays and beautiful illustrations, Voekle tells the…

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    The Burke Collection of Italian Miniatures

    Christopher de Hamel

    The magnificent Burke Collection of Italian miniatures, which is housed in Special Collections in the the Stanford University Libraries, has been built over more than twenty years and includes manuscript…

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    Medieval Manuscripts and their Provenance

    Essays about the creation, circulation, and collection of medieval manuscripts.

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    The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya

    New research into medieval English literature, with a particular focus on manuscripts and writing.

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