Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World Medieval

Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World MedievalAn exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts 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

It is the first comprehensive

pages are trimmed according to the original format

a remarkable draftsman

offering not only a collection of medieval recipes

Augmenting the text are reproductions of Petersen's original line drawings and recent color photographs of the Morgan's bindings

to painting and copying the elaborate designs

and installations

Morgan’s personal librarian

Ten years later

the book also delves into his collection of old master drawings from Italian and Northern European artists

Cologne’s Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devote a substantial section to international photography

A further essay recounts Thaw’s career as a collector of master drawings and a catalogue raisonné documents the Thaw Collection in full