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03358aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 C50E6B76586511EA978CCE3397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200226010029 008 190303r20192016nyuach b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0143110802 020 $a 9780143110804 035 $a (OCoLC)1088699118 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d TKN $d GZM $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d SILO 050 4 $a Z106.5.E85 $b D44 2019 082 04 $a 091 $2 23 100 1 $a De Hamel, Christopher, $d 1950- $e author. 245 10 $a Meetings with remarkable manuscripts : $b twelve journeys into the Medieval world / $c Christopher de Hamel. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, $c 2019. 300 $a vii, 632 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color), facsimiles (chiefly color) ; $c 23 cm 500 $a First published in hardback in 2017. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-610) and indexes. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Publisher's website. 586 $a Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize 650 0 $a Manuscripts, European. 650 0 $a Manuscripts, Medieval. 650 0 $a Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. 650 7 $a Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00967326 650 7 $a Manuscripts, European. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01008335 650 7 $a Manuscripts, Medieval. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01008422 655 7 $a Facsimiles. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411642 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022838.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C50E6B76586511EA978CCE3397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search