Christopher de Hamel
British librarian and specialist in medieval manuscripts · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1950 · age 75
Christopher Francis Rivers de Hamel is a British academic librarian and expert on mediaeval manuscripts. He is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and former Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library.
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His book Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is the winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for 2016 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2017.
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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Living
Dates
Born 1950 · age 75
