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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club

2022 || Hardcover || Christopher de Hamel || Veltman Distributie Import Books

The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history

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 centu...

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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

2024 || Paperback || Christopher de Hamel || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.

This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actually meeting and talking to a person of world stature.



The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscrip...