Medieval manuscripts: an enduring obsession
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The Manuscripts
Christopher DeHamel's book the posthumous papers of the manuscripts club is out now published by Penguin. If some of these people could come back now and you take them up to the British Library or to the Morgan Library New York or to the state library they would say good God I remember that that was a did it did it and away they would go, he says. The Duke to Berry built castles for himself all across France if you'd asked him I expect he would have thought that his indestructible stone castles would last forever - Christopher DeHamel.
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