The manuscripts club the people behind a thousand years of medieval manuscripts
"The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- The monk: Saint Anselm
- The prince: the Duc de Berry
- The bookseller: Vespasiano da Bisticci
- The illuminator: Simon Bening
- The antiquary: Sir Robert Cotton
- The rabbi: David Oppenheim
- The savant: Jean-Joseph Rive
- The librarian: Sir Frederic Madden
- The forger: Constantine Simonides
- The editor: Theodor Mommsen
- The collector: Sir Sydney Cockerell
- The curator: Belle da Costa Greene.
