Manuscripts


The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
The Personal Librarian
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
The Thieves of Manhattan
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
The Prague Sonata
Brother Hugo and the Bear
People of the Book
The Secret in the Old Attic (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #21)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
Anglo-Saxon England had the richest tradition of written vernacular literature of any country in Europe, including a large body of original poetry and many translations of earlier Latin works.
Janet Backhouse, The illuminated manuscript

It should be understood that in medieval eyes an artist was simply a craftsman, his activities having little to do with the twentieth-century notions of self-expression, individual genius and 'artistic temperament' that nowadays cling to his profession. ...more
Janet Backhouse, The illuminated manuscript

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