A review by bub_9
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World by Christopher de Hamel

4.0

This is just delightful and a really fun way of introducing an unbelievably esoteric world of medieval texts to the average reader (with much thanks to the beautiful illustrations). The author does a brilliant job of exploring the intricacies and historical exigencies of each work and its context of production which, one feels, is a process which might someday be performed upon the works we produce and consume in our present moment.

Here are the 12 subjects of the fascinating "meetings" the author has:

1. Gospels of Saint Augustine
2. The Codex Amiatinus
3. The Book of Kells
4. The Leiden Aratea
5. The Morgan Beatus
6. Hugo Pictor
7. The Copenhagen Psalter
8. The Carmina Burana
9. The Hours of Jeanne de Navarre
10. The Hengwrt Chaucer
11. The Visconti Semideus
12. The Spinola Hours