Manuscripts


The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
The Personal Librarian
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
The Thieves of Manhattan
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
The Prague Sonata
Brother Hugo and the Bear
People of the Book
The Secret in the Old Attic (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #21)
Contemporary records reveal that in cities such as Paris the various craftsmen involved in the production of books—illuminators, ink and parchment makers, bookbinders and so forth—tended to live side by side in specific streets or neighbourhoods, which made co-operation easy.
Janet Backhouse, The illuminated manuscript

Anglo-Saxon and Irish saints and scholars played a vital role in the conversion of Europe, especially during the seventh and eighth centuries, and through them insular art influenced the work of early continental illuminators.
Janet Backhouse, The illuminated manuscript

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