20 books
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7 voters
Manuscripts Books
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,548,063 ratings — published 2003
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,614 ratings — published 2016
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.02 — 562,794 ratings — published 2011
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.18 — 320 ratings — published 2022
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.50 — 12,696 ratings — published 2016
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.05 — 235,991 ratings — published 2021
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.24 — 518 ratings — published 1986
The Thieves of Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,693 ratings — published 2010
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.26 — 271 ratings — published 2021
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,366 ratings — published 2021
The Prague Sonata (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,544 ratings — published 2017
Brother Hugo and the Bear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.79 — 659 ratings — published 2014
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.04 — 158,127 ratings — published 2008
The Secret in the Old Attic (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #21)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,355 ratings — published 1944
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.66 — 693,096 ratings — published 2010
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,268 ratings — published 1975
Possession (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.90 — 85,194 ratings — published 1990
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.76 — 121,012 ratings — published -1200
Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Makers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.13 — 31 ratings — published 2003
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms ("^ALooking at" Series)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.20 — 137 ratings — published 1994
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.10 — 599 ratings — published 2021
Islamic Codicology: An Introduction to the Study of Manuscripts in Arabic Script (Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 2005
قصة الورق: تاريخ الورق في العالم الإسلامي قبل ظهور الطباعة (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.27 — 63 ratings — published 2001
The Medieval Book: Illustrated from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.04 — 45 ratings — published 1991
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,039 ratings — published 1349
The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.62 — 13 ratings — published 2015
Bestiary: Being an English Version of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Bodley 764 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.24 — 169 ratings — published 1237
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,268 ratings — published 2019
The Last Dickens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.57 — 7,282 ratings — published 2009
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.94 — 582,183 ratings — published -500
English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500 (Oxford Palaeographical Handbooks.)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.14 — 399,947 ratings — published 1980
The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,811 ratings — published 2012
Codex (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.05 — 8,999 ratings — published 2004
The Celestine Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.74 — 123,830 ratings — published 1993
The Lindisfarne Gospels (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.07 — 102 ratings — published 1981
Scribes And Illuminators (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.06 — 194 ratings — published 1992
Crawlers (The Cursed Manuscripts #9)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.27 — 746 ratings — published
Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (Approaching the Ancient World)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.90 — 21 ratings — published 1995
In Praise of the Variant: A Critical History of Philology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.00 — 28 ratings — published 1989
Unpublished London Book (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Le Fabuleux Album d’Amelie Poulain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.39 — 44 ratings — published 2001
Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2001
Unpublished book (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.41 — 104 ratings — published
Of Reynaert the Fox: Text and Facing Translation of the Middle Dutch Beast Epic Van den Vos Reynaerde (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.46 — 41 ratings — published 2010
Novels by Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code, Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.95 — 41 ratings — published 2010
Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published
Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 (Material Texts)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 2007
The Art of WolfWalkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.77 — 227 ratings — published 2020
The Seeker (The Host, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as manuscripts)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,020 ratings — published
“The preparation of an illuminated book has always been a very expensive business.”
― The illuminated manuscript
― The illuminated manuscript
“Although the emphasis during the late Middle Ages was upon the provision of books for private patrons, many manuscripts were also made for public use.”
― The illuminated manuscript
― The illuminated manuscript












