- Published: 29 January 2018
- ISBN: 9780141977492
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 656
- RRP: $29.99
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
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- Published: 29 January 2018
- ISBN: 9780141977492
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 656
- RRP: $29.99
An extraordinary book, a work of scholarship and history salted with the author's excitement as he conducts us among the great libraries of Western civilization. It is full of delights
Tom Stoppard
A book of marvels
John Banville, Financial Times
The intellectual expedition of a lifetime ... This is an endlessly fascinating and enjoyable book.
Neil MacGregor
Entrancing ... De Hamel's learned adventures amid some of the West's greatest manuscript treasures effortlessly outclass Eco's The Name of the Rose in elegance and excitement. They are also much funnier.
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Reading is my life, but only about once a decade do I find a book that seems to tilt the world, so afterwards it appears different.
Fiammetta Rocco, The Economist '1843'
De Hamel's book, scholarly but unfailingly readable, is the beginning of wisdom in all things scribal and scriptural - Ian Thomson, The Observer
Ian Thomson, The Observer
