In Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts, Christopher de Hamel explores twelve important illuminated medieval manuscripts, taking the reader on a journey through libraries across Europe and North America. He reconstructs the lives of these manuscripts: how they were created, by whom, and how they were traded, preserved, damaged, or passed down through the centuries. In doing so, he uncovers connections between art, religion, politics, culture, and identity throughout history. The book is simultaneously a travelogue, detective story, palaeographical history, and cultural history: written in an accessible style, full of anecdotes, historical context, and the author's personal impressions of the physical experience of touching and studying centuries-old manuscripts.