Free with museum admission, advance registration is required.
Join Christopher de Hamel, author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts and winner of both the Wolfson History Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize, for a discussion on his latest book The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts. De Hamel describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club.
The lecture will be followed by a book signing. The exhibition Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality will be on view at 5 PM for program attendees.