September 2024 Issue Richard Ovenden Blessed are the Copyists History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts By Robert Bartlett LR
November 2022 Issue Tim Smith-Laing Illuminators & Accumulators The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club By Christopher de Hamel LR
October 2021 Issue Linda Porter Spirit of Parchment Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers By Mary Wellesley LR
August 2021 Issue Sarah Dunant Prince of Publishers The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance By Ross King LR
December 2019 Issue Clare Carlisle Articles of Faith The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts By Karen Armstrong LR
December 2016 Issue Charles Hope Everything is Illuminated The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 1450-1600 By Jonathan J G Alexander LR
September 2016 Issue David Ekserdjian The Illuminati Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts By Christopher de Hamel
June 2014 Issue David Bodanis Last of the Magicians The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts By Sarah Dry LR
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