The Resource Meetings with remarkable manuscripts : twelve journeys into the medieval world, Christopher de Hamel
Meetings with remarkable manuscripts : twelve journeys into the medieval world, Christopher de Hamel
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The item Meetings with remarkable manuscripts : twelve journeys into the medieval world, Christopher de Hamel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- "Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history--and about the modern world, too. In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys that these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity, and who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell). From the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 632 pages
- Note
- First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781594206115
- Label
- Meetings with remarkable manuscripts : twelve journeys into the medieval world
- Title
- Meetings with remarkable manuscripts
- Title remainder
- twelve journeys into the medieval world
- Statement of responsibility
- Christopher de Hamel
- Subject
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- HISTORY / Medieval
- trueIllumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- Illustrated works
- trueManuscripts
- Manuscripts, European
- Manuscripts, European
- trueManuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- trueMaterial culture
- RELIGION / Christianity / History
- Illustrated works
- trueCivilization, Medieval
- trueEurope -- History -- 476-1492
- trueEurope -- Social life and customs -- 476-1492
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history--and about the modern world, too. In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys that these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time and shows us how they have been copied, how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity, and who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell). From the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Awards note
- Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10600282
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- De Hamel, Christopher
- Dewey number
- 091
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Manuscripts, European
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
- HISTORY / Medieval
- RELIGION / Christianity / History
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, European
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- twelve journeys into the medieval world
- Label
- Meetings with remarkable manuscripts : twelve journeys into the medieval world, Christopher de Hamel
- Note
- First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn973795667
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- vii, 632 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594206115
- Lccn
- 2017031392
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)973795667
- Label
- Meetings with remarkable manuscripts : twelve journeys into the medieval world, Christopher de Hamel
- Note
- First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn973795667
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- vii, 632 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594206115
- Lccn
- 2017031392
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)973795667
Subject
- HISTORY / Medieval
- trueIllumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
- Illustrated works
- trueManuscripts
- Manuscripts, European
- Manuscripts, European
- trueManuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- trueMaterial culture
- RELIGION / Christianity / History
- Illustrated works
- trueCivilization, Medieval
- trueEurope -- History -- 476-1492
- trueEurope -- Social life and customs -- 476-1492
- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
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