Autorentext

Christopher de Hamel FSA FRHistS is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library. He is one of the world's leading experts on mediaeval manuscripts. His book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is the winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for 2016 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2017.

Zusammenfassung
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.