Christopher de Hamel
Author
Books
In the course of a long career at Sotheby's Christopher de Hamel has probably handled and catalogued more illuminated manuscripts and over a wider range than any person alive. Since 2000, he has been Fellow and Librarian of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The Parker Library, in his care, includes many of the earliest manuscripts in English language and history. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society.
Non-Fiction
| Publication Details | Notes |
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2016 Allen Lane | |
Gilding the Lilly, A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library 2010 Lilly Library, University of Indiana | |
The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts 2005 British Library | |
The Book, A History of the Bible 2001 Phaidon | |
Scribes and Illuminators 1992 British Museum | |
Syon Abbey, The Library of the Bridgettine Nuns and their Peregrinations after the Reformation 1991 Roxburghe Club | |
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts 1986 Phaidon | |
Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Book Trade 1984 Boydell & Brewer |