De Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "The people who made, saved, and sometimes destroyed medieval manuscripts, over a thousand years of history, from the acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. The Manuscripts Club tells of twelve men and women, from the eleventh century to the twentieth, who all share an overwhelming obsession with illuminated manuscripts. The saint, the patron, the bookseller, the artist, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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Summary: This single volume contains all of Blake's illuminated books, reproduced from the best available originals. It is published to coincide with a major exhibition at the Tate Gallery in the autumn of 2000.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson in association with the William Blake Trust 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 821.7 BLADe Hamel, Christopher
Summary: "This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into intimate conversations with twelve of the most famous manuscripts in existence and to explore with the author what they tell us about nearly a thousand years of medieval history -- and sometimes about the modern world too. Part travel book, part detective story, part...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941 DEHTonatiuh, Duncan
Summary: Illustrations and text describe how the Mixtecs create painted manuscripts, or codices, that reflect their way of life and document their history, science, land tenure, tribute, and sacred rituals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TONGibson, Jeremy Sumner Wycherley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1989
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Backhouse, Janet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Toronto Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 BackhouseHarper, Josephine L. (Josephine Louise)
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Publisher / Publication Date: State Historical Society of Wisconsin 1983
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3775 HarpeSabar, Ariel
Summary: "In 2012, Dr. Karen King, a star professor at the Harvard Divinity School, announced a blockbuster discovery at a scholarly conference just steps from the Vatican: She had found an ancient fragment of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene "my wife." The discovery made front-page news around the world - if early Christians believed that Jesus was married, it would threaten not just the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harbor Hill Books 1987
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1Cahill, Thomas.
Summary: A history of the Dark Ages showing that as Europe was in an intellectual decline, Ireland became a haven for scholarship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 941.501 CAHFox, Hester
Summary: "In post World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets . . . With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOXKiernan, Caitlín R.
Summary: Sarah Crowe left Atlanta to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant, a parapsychologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on the property. Tied to local legends of supernatural magic, accidents, and murders, the gnarled tree takes root in Sarah's imagination, prompting her to write her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2009
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Summary: After his friend falls seriously ill, Max and his cousin Alex use clues found in their great-great-great-grandfather Jules Vernes unpublished manuscript to find a magical cure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: Discovery of long-hidden documents in the Vatican Secret Archives reveals the Resurrection to be a myth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literati Editions 2020
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Summary: "One book can change your life. Finding an old manuscript in the attic has always been a fantasy of Sylvia's. She just never expected the fantasy to come true, or for it to lead her to answers about her mysterious family. The silver clasps binding the pages contain rare magic--the same magic that might run through Sylvia's veins. To discover a link to her ancestors means understanding the book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. J. Archer 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARCBrown, Dan
Summary: While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gustav Lübbe Verlag 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.3 FIC BRODavies, Peter Ho
Summary: "Although revision is essential to writing, readers only see the final draft, leaving the practice shrouded in mystery. Peter Ho Davies addresses this invisibility by examining his own work, alongside classic and contemporary authors, while also reaching beyond literature to film adaptations and retconning. And a story about his father--told and retold across the book--serves as impetus for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 DAVGable, Michelle
Summary: "In 1942, London. Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. When a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay. Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 KINWarner, Joel
Summary: "The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written-Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom-landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history. Described as both "one of the most important novels ever written" and "the gospel of evil," 120 Days of Sodom was penned by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 WARAusten, Jane
Summary: "For the first time, all three volumes of Jane Austen's brilliant early manuscripts are available in beautiful facsimile editions. Fan fiction from the eighteenth century-Jane Austen's stories are as fresh and fun today as they were when she wrote them. Forever immortalized as the author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen actually produced her first "books" as a teenager. Taking their names...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 AUSEnglish, Charlie
Summary: The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.2 ENGMiddleton, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Manchester University Press 1996