179 books
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53 voters
Manuscripts Books
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,556,034 ratings — published 2003
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,622 ratings — published 2016
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.02 — 564,353 ratings — published 2011
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.19 — 323 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 3.50 — 12,774 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 3.99 — 2,385 ratings — published 2021
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.05 — 238,381 ratings — published 2021
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.23 — 520 ratings — published 1986
The Thieves of Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,695 ratings — published 2010
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.26 — 275 ratings — published 2021
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.10 — 610 ratings — published 2021
The Prague Sonata (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,567 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 — 158,487 ratings — published 2008
The Secret in the Old Attic (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #21)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,394 ratings — published 1944
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.66 — 699,063 ratings — published 2010
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,334 ratings — published 1975
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.90 — 85,405 ratings — published 1990
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,444 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 4.20 — 137 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
قصة الورق: تاريخ الورق في العالم الإسلامي قبل ظهور الطباعة (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.27 — 63 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 — 44,174 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 — 169 ratings — published 1237
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,274 ratings — published 2019
The Last Dickens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,289 ratings — published 2009
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.94 — 584,847 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 — 401,277 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 — 1,822 ratings — published 2012
Codex (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.05 — 9,020 ratings — published 2004
The Celestine Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.74 — 124,178 ratings — published 1993
The Lindisfarne Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.08 — 103 ratings — published 1981
Scribes And Illuminators (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.06 — 194 ratings — published 1992
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 3.74 — 61 ratings — published 2024
Tales from Rugosa Coven (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.21 — 58 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 4.24 — 829 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
In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.03 — 29 ratings — published 1989
Unpublished London Book (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Le Fabuleux Album d’Amelie Poulain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.39 — 44 ratings — published 2001
Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2001
Unpublished book (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.41 — 110 ratings — published
Of Reynaert the Fox: Text and Facing Translation of the Middle Dutch Beast Epic Van den Vos Reynaerde (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.46 — 41 ratings — published 2010
Novels by Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code, Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.95 — 41 ratings — published 2010
“It is, however, very important never to lose sight of the fact that the miniatures in illuminated books were not conceived as individual and independent paintings. They are book illustrations and are thus always intimately connected with a text.”
― The illuminated manuscript
― The illuminated manuscript
“Although most Romanesque manuscripts are attributed to communities of monks, the great nunneries must have supported their own scribes and illuminators.”
― The illuminated manuscript
― The illuminated manuscript












