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LNL Summer: Christopher de Hamel on manuscript addicts
The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature, fetching phenomenal sums at auction. So who were the people who spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years?
Guest: Christopher de Hamel, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and former Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library. 'The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club’ is published by Penguin.
Originally broadcast on the 6th of April, 2023.
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