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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,511,077 ratings — published 2003
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,588 ratings — published 2016
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.02 — 553,753 ratings — published 2011
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.50 — 12,431 ratings — published 2016
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.05 — 223,839 ratings — published 2021
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.24 — 516 ratings — published 1986
The Thieves of Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,691 ratings — published 2010
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.22 — 275 ratings — published 2022
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.27 — 262 ratings — published 2021
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,296 ratings — published 2021
The Prague Sonata (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,453 ratings — published 2017
Brother Hugo and the Bear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.78 — 649 ratings — published 2014
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.04 — 155,861 ratings — published 2008
The Secret in the Old Attic (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #21)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,240 ratings — published 1944
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.66 — 658,788 ratings — published 2010
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,769 ratings — published 1975
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.90 — 84,163 ratings — published 1990
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,280 ratings — published -2000
Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.13 — 30 ratings — published 2003
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms ("^ALooking at" Series)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.20 — 137 ratings — published 1994
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.10 — 547 ratings — published 2021
Islamic Codicology: An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script (Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 2005
قصة الورق: تاريخ الورق في العالم الإسلامي قبل ظهور الطباعة (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.26 — 61 ratings — published 2001
The Medieval Book: Illustrated from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.04 — 45 ratings — published 1991
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,403 ratings — published 1349
The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.62 — 13 ratings — published 2015
Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.24 — 166 ratings — published 1237
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,241 ratings — published 2019
The Last Dickens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,252 ratings — published 2009
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.95 — 565,818 ratings — published -500
English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500 (Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks.)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.14 — 393,625 ratings — published 1980
The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,785 ratings — published 2012
Codex (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.04 — 8,869 ratings — published 2004
The Celestine Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.73 — 122,082 ratings — published 1993
The Lindisfarne Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.08 — 98 ratings — published 1981
Scribes And Illuminators (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.05 — 189 ratings — published 1992
Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published
Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 (Material Texts)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.38 — 13 ratings — published 2007
The Art of WolfWalkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.76 — 220 ratings — published 2020
The Seeker (The Host, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,009 ratings — published
The Soul (The Host, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,143 ratings — published
Trends in Statistical Codicology (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 19)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Symphosius The Aenigmata: An Introduction, Text and Commentary (Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2014
The Hundred Riddles of Symphosius (Classic Reprint): Translated Into English Verse With an Introduction and Notes
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2015
مصادر الشعر الجاهلي وقيمتها التاريخية (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.89 — 36 ratings — published 2010
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.91 — 877 ratings — published 2023
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.94 — 445 ratings — published 2019
Carnival of Souls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.65 — 6,380 ratings — published 2012
Justice (The Ferryman and the Flame, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.16 — 83 ratings — published 2013
“Petrarch sometimes wrote letters to long-dead authors. He was also a dedicated hunter of classic manuscripts. Once, after discovering some previously unknown works of Cicero, he wrote Cicero the news.”
― Reader’s Block
― Reader’s Block
“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.”
― The illuminated manuscript
― The illuminated manuscript
