📗 Libro en inglés THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE MANUSCRIPTS CLUB

Exquisite intelligent illuminating mischievous delightful The TimesThe acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of historyThe 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 d