Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers by Mary Wellesley

Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

Mary Wellesley

368 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

Description

Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded. Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and rea...

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reflective 28%
inspiring 21%
challenging 7%
emotional 7%
relaxing 7%

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slow 38%

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