Book in the Cathedral
«Readers will delight in de Hamel's passion for his subject, his book's sumptuous illustrations, and above all his virtuoso display of learning»
John Guy, Literary Review
The best-selling historian of medieval manuscripts discovers the most intimate surviving relic of Thomas Becket. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Allen Lane
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 64
- ISBN
- 9780241469583
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 20 x 14 cm
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«Readers will delight in de Hamel's passion for his subject, his book's sumptuous illustrations, and above all his virtuoso display of learning»
John Guy, Literary Review
«De Hamel - author of the wonderful Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts - shows us all the tools of the bibliographer's trade: dating handwriting, identifying pigments, noting the rust marks left by nails from a now-lost ornate binding ... The identification - or rehabilitation - of his psalter, the book he carried with him into exile, possibly held at his death, is a timely and enjoyable tribute.»
Dennis Duncan, The Guardian
«Christopher de Hamel quotes Sherlock Holmes, as he might, in his latest bit of medieval detective work, showing that a book of the Psalms in a Cambridge college was once a treasured possession of St Thomas Becket ... grippingly told in The Book in the Cathedral.»
Christopher Howse, Daily Telegraph