Providing a comprehensive and accessible orientation to the field of medieval manuscript studies, this lavishly
illustrated book by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham is unique among handbooks on paleography, codicology, and
manuscript illumination in its scope and level of detail. It will be of immeasurable help to students in history,
art history, literature, and religious studies who are encountering medieval manuscripts for the first time, while
also appealing to advanced scholars and general readers interested in the history of the book before the age of
print.