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1 online resource (1 audio file (17hr., 43 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Christopher de Hamel. |
| Summary |
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a remarkable examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the listener into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history-and sometimes about the modern world too. In so doing, de Hamel introduces us to kings, queens, saints, scribes, artists, librarians, thieves, dealers, and collectors. He traces the elaborate journeys which these exceptionally precious artifacts have made through time, shows us how they have been copied, who has owned them or lusted after them (and how we can tell), how they have been embroiled in politics, how they have been regarded as objects of supreme beauty and as symbols of national identity. From the earliest book in medieval England to the incomparable Book of Kells to the oldest manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, these encounters tell a narrative of intellectual culture and art over the course of a millennium. Two of the manuscripts visited are now in libraries of North America, the Morgan Library in New York and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Manuscripts, European.
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Manuscripts, Medieval.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
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Books of hours -- Pictorial works.
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St. Augustine Gospels -- Pictorial works.
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Codex Amiatinus -- Pictorial works.
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Book of Kells -- Pictorial works.
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Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Bibliotheek. Manuscript. Voss. Lat. Q. 79 -- Pictorial works.
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Ashburnham-Morgan Beatus (Manuscript) -- Pictorial works.
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Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Bodley 717 -- Pictorial works.
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Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark). Manuscript. Thott 143 2o -- Pictorial works.
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Carmina Burana -- Pictorial works.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France. Manuscript. Nouv. acq. lat. 3145 -- Pictorial works.
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Hengwrt manuscript -- Pictorial works.
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Rossiĭskai︠a︡ nat︠s︡ionalʹnai︠a︡ biblioteka. Manuscript. Lat.Q.v.XVII.2 -- Pictorial works.
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J. Paul Getty Museum. Manuscript. Ludwig IX 18 -- Pictorial works.
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| Added Author |
De Hamel, Christopher.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541427624 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1541427629 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11983568 |
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