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The migrants : a memoir with manuscripts / Christopher de Hamel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Hamel, Christopher, 1950- xxx.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- De Hamel, Christopher, 1950-.
- De Hamel, Christopher.
- Book collectors--History.
- Book collectors.
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Manuscripts--History.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : some colour illustrations ; 24 cm
- some colour.
- illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books, 2026.
- Summary:
- Christopher de Hamel is one of the world's best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was mostly brought up in the south of New Zealand, where his family moved when he was four. This book magically evokes a childhood at vast distance from Europe, recalling his thrill and wonder in first encountering medieval manuscripts in libraries there and the realization that they too are migrants far from home.The Migrants explores the immense journeys of books and people. It is a tale of colonization and the migration of culture - of motives and idealism, triumphs and disasters - bringing us face-to-face with history. We meet the colonial governor on his paradise island, the shipwrecked accountant, the nonagenarian who cut up manuscripts, the magnate who unknowingly bought Becket's Boethius and the early settler who inscribed his Book of Hours in the Maori language in 1842. We travel with the author today back to where these manuscripts began their own lives, through France and Poland and medieval England, discovering their first owners and following the longest journeys on earth.This is a coming-of-age saga with extraordinary twists, crossing many hundreds of years and tens of thousands of miles, recounted with passion, humour and a lifetime's reflection.
- Contents:
- Kawau island
- Christchurch
- Besançon
- Dunedin
- Koronowo
- Norbury
- Wellington and Auckland
- Canterbury
- Otago
- Westminister and Oxford
- Bibliographical sources
- Index of people
- Index of manuscripts and incunabula.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780241670125
- 0241670128
- OCLC:
- 1527663747
- Publisher Number:
- 90104323270
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