The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts Morgan's Bibles

The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts Morgan's BiblesThe 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. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made,

The death of a famous lion in the summer of 1829 permitted Delacroix and Barye to undertake close study

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and predilection for luxury bindings on important books

who Gorey tells us 'is of mixed Finnish and Egyptian extraction

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and scholar Achille-Constant-Théodore-Émile Prisse d’Avennes (1807–1879) is famed as one of the most influential Egyptologists

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In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley

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