Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts written and browse by Christopher de Hamel.

That is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Arriving face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is rather like meeting an extremely famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known superstar is no different from other people, and yet there is an undeniable excitement in actually achieving and talking to a person of globe stature.

The idea because of this book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into a romantic conversation with a selection of the most well-known manuscripts around, and to let each of those manuscripts illuminate the Middle Ages and sometimes today’s world too. Meetings with Extraordinary Manuscripts invites the reader to accompany the author on exclusive private visits to a dozen very varied series, in different parts of the world, to find twelve great manuscripts also to explore their historic and intellectual significance.