Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
by De Hamel, Christopher
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594206112
- ISBN 13
- 9781594206115
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Penguin Press, 2017 8vo (24.5 cm), VIII, 632 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "The book is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history - and about the modern world, too. Part travel book, part detective story, part conversation with the reader, 'Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts' allows us to experience some of the greatest works of art in our culture to give us a different perspective on history and on how we come by knowledge." (from the blurb)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008972
- Title
- Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
- Author
- De Hamel, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1594206112
- ISBN 13
- 9781594206115
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2017
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography; Illuminated manuscripts;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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