Shared Language - Vernacular Manuscripts of the Middle Ages

The thirty-six manuscripts included in this catalogue provide viewers unique access to the authentic, spontaneous vision of people in medieval France, Italy, Germany, the Low Counties, and Britain. As award-winning author Christopher de Hamel writes in the introduction "There is one way in which manuscripts are different from all other works of art : they can talk Shared language is the basis of all communication, and manuscripts can actually speak to us."