Author: William Dunn Macray
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Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: William Dunn Macray
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Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: William Dunn Macray
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752440155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Reproduction of the original: Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 by William Dunn Macray

Author: William Dunn Macray
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Languages : en
Pages : 582

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Author: Christopher de Hamel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525559426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 589

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The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.

Author: M. Cook
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137078952
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Bringing together essays on topics related to Islamic law, this book is composed of articles by prominent legal scholars and historians of Islam. They exemplify a critical development in the field of Islamic Studies: the proliferation of methodological approaches that employ a broad variety of sources to analyze social and political developments.

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Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Author: Macray
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Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Author: Neil Ker
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198181958
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries Volume 3: Lampeter - Oxford

Author: British Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1066

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