Christopher de Hamel on Caring for Medieval Texts
In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On
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Andrew talks to Christopher de Hamel, author of The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club, about the remarkable literary figures behind a thousand years of medieval manuscripts.
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Christopher de Hamel is the author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, winner of both the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. Over the course of a long career at Sotheby’s he catalogued more illuminated manuscripts than any other person alive, and very possibly more than any one individual has ever done. Christopher de Hamel is now a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was the former librarian of Parker Library, which includes many, even most, of the earliest manuscripts in English language and history. De Hamel lives in London and Cambridge.
