The Migrants
A Memoir with Manuscripts
$48.00
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2026
Summary
A brilliant memoir of adolescence in New Zealand and of the migration of European manuscripts to the far side of the world
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241670125 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241670128 |
| Author: | Christopher de Hamel |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 550g |
| Dimensions: | 241mm x 163mm x 32mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
[Christopher de Hamel] combines enthusiasm with scholarly precision and a conversational style that sits surprisingly easily with the fund of knowledge he has gradually accumulated … the joy of this book are de Hamel’s true ‘intimate companions’, the manuscripts, and his ability to evoke the thrill and wonder he feels as he encounters them, whether it’s a 12th-century copy of Boethius he finds in Wellington, probably designed for Thomas Becket, or a Bible in Auckland, which he traces back to a Cistercian monastery in north-central Poland – Mark Bostridge * Spectator *
About The Author
Christopher de Hamel
Christopher de Hamel has probably handled more medieval manuscripts than anyone alive in the course of a long career at Sotheby’s and at Cambridge University, and his delight and enthusiasm in them run through all he writes. His many books, translated into numerous languages, include A History of Illuminated Manuscripts, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the Wolfson History Prize), The Book in the Cathedral- The Last Relic of Thomas Becket and The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club. He is a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He lives in London.
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