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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,580,120 ratings — published 2003
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,666 ratings — published 2016
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.02 — 569,666 ratings — published 2011
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.18 — 339 ratings — published 2022
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 3.51 — 12,962 ratings — published 2016
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,450 ratings — published 2021
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.04 — 247,303 ratings — published 2021
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.23 — 522 ratings — published 1986
The Thieves of Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,694 ratings — published 2010
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.26 — 288 ratings — published 2021
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.10 — 644 ratings — published 2021
قصة الورق: تاريخ الورق في العالم الإسلامي قبل ظهور الطباعة (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.29 — 65 ratings — published 2001
The Prague Sonata (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,628 ratings — published 2017
Brother Hugo and the Bear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.79 — 658 ratings — published 2014
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.04 — 159,946 ratings — published 2008
The Secret in the Old Attic (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #21)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,509 ratings — published 1944
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.66 — 722,355 ratings — published 2010
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,626 ratings — published 1975
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.90 — 86,420 ratings — published 1990
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.76 — 123,725 ratings — published -1800
Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.13 — 31 ratings — published 2003
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms ("^ALooking at" Series)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.21 — 140 ratings — published 1994
Islamic Codicology: An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script (Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.28 — 18 ratings — published 2005
A King's Book of Kings: The Sha-Nameh of Sha Tahmasp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.44 — 18 ratings — published 1972
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 — 44,621 ratings — published 1349
The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.64 — 14 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 4.26 — 168 ratings — published 1237
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,293 ratings — published 2019
The Last Dickens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,322 ratings — published 2009
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.94 — 595,550 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 — 406,233 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 3.97 — 1,860 ratings — published 2012
Codex (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.05 — 9,089 ratings — published 2004
The Celestine Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.74 — 125,439 ratings — published 1993
The Lindisfarne Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.10 — 105 ratings — published 1981
Scribes And Illuminators (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.07 — 199 ratings — published 1992
Unpublished book (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.35 — 128 ratings — published
The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use (Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, Series Number 2) (Volume 0)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1994
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.33 — 106 ratings — published 2024
One Aladdin Two Lamps (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,769 ratings — published 2025
The Shaft: a folk horror novel (The Cursed Manuscripts Book 10)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.25 — 237 ratings — published
The Latin New Testament: A Guide to its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published 2016
أنظار في مناهج تحقيق المخطوطات العربية (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.70 — 69 ratings — published 2024
Tales from Rugosa Coven (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.23 — 57 ratings — published 2013
المطالع النصرية للمطابع المصرية في الأصول الخطية (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Crawlers (The Cursed Manuscripts #9)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.23 — 939 ratings — published
Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (Approaching the Ancient World)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.90 — 21 ratings — published 1995
“The preparation of an illuminated book has always been a very expensive business.”
― The Illuminated Manuscript
― The Illuminated Manuscript
“Although most of the finest early illumination is to be found in liturgical manuscripts, some secular texts were also illuminated. Their number was to increase with increasing individual ownership of books.”
― The Illuminated Manuscript
― The Illuminated Manuscript
