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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
Buch von Christopher de Hamel
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor
Christopher de Hamel
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Antiquitäten
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 616
Inhalt: 512 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241304372
ISBN-10: 0241304377
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 446555
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Hamel, Christopher de
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Allen Lane
Maße: 241 x 161 x 57 mm
Von/Mit: Christopher de Hamel
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2022
Gewicht: 1,48 kg
preigu-id: 120950912
Über den Autor
Christopher de Hamel
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Antiquitäten
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 616
Inhalt: 512 S.
ISBN-13: 9780241304372
ISBN-10: 0241304377
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 446555
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Hamel, Christopher de
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Allen Lane
Maße: 241 x 161 x 57 mm
Von/Mit: Christopher de Hamel
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2022
Gewicht: 1,48 kg
preigu-id: 120950912
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