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<p><b>Christopher Francis Rivers de Hamel</b> (* <a href="20._November" title="20. November">20. November</a> <a href="1950" title="1950">1950</a> in <a href="London" title="London">London</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) ist ein britischer <a href="Bibliothekswissenschaft" title="Bibliothekswissenschaft">Bibliothekswissenschaftler</a> und Experte für mittelalterliche <a href="Manuskript" class="mw-redirect" title="Manuskript">Manuskripte</a>. Er ist ein <a href="Fellow" title="Fellow">Fellow</a> des <a href="Corpus_Christi_College_(Cambridge)" title="Corpus Christi College (Cambridge)">Corpus Christi College (Cambridge)</a> und ehemaliger Fellow Librarian der <a href="Parker_Library" title="Parker Library">Parker Library</a>. Sein Buch <i>Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts</i> gewann den <a href="Duff_Cooper_Prize" title="Duff Cooper Prize">Duff Cooper Prize</a> 2016 und den <a href="Wolfson_History_Prize" title="Wolfson History Prize">Wolfson History Prize</a> 2017.
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<p>Mit vier Jahren zog er nach Neuseeland. Er besuchte die King’s High School in <a href="Dunedin" title="Dunedin">Dunedin</a> und die <a href="University_of_Otago" title="University of Otago">University of Otago</a>. Darauf promovierte er an der <a href="Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a> mit einer Arbeit über Bibelkommentare im 12. Jh.: <i>The production and circulation of glossed books of the Bible in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries</i>. Er erhielt Ehrendoktorate von der University of Otago und der St. John’s University (Minnesota).
</p><p>Von 1975 bis 2000 arbeitete de Hamel für <a href="Sotheby%E2%80%99s" title="Sotheby’s">Sotheby’s</a> in der Manuskript-Abteilung. Dann wurde er zum Donnelley Fellow Librarian am <a href="Corpus_Christi_College_(Cambridge)" title="Corpus Christi College (Cambridge)">Corpus Christi College (Cambridge)</a> gewählt sowie 2001 zum Mitglied des <a href="Roxburghe_Club" title="Roxburghe Club">Roxburghe Club</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publikationen_(Auswahl)"><span id="Publikationen_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Publikationen (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>A History of Illuminated Manuscripts</i> (Phaidon, 1986; 2. Aufl. 1994)</li>
<li><i>Syon Abbey, The library of the Bridgettine Nuns and their Peregrinations after the Reformation</i> (<a href="Roxburghe_Club" title="Roxburghe Club">Roxburghe Club</a>, 1991)</li>
<li><i>Scribes and Illuminators</i> (<a href="British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>, 1992)</li>
<li><i>The Book: a History of the Bible</i> (Phaidon, 2001)</li>
<li><i>The Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts</i> (<a href="British_Library" title="British Library">British Library</a>, 2005)</li>
<li><i>The Macclesfield Alphabet Book: a facsimile</i> (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li><i>Gilding the Lilly: a Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library</i> (<a href="Indiana_University_Bloomington" title="Indiana University Bloomington">Indiana University</a>, 2010)</li>
<li><i>Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts</i> (Allen Lane, London 2016)
<ul><li><i>Pracht und Anmut: Begegnungen mit zwölf herausragenden Handschriften des Mittelalters</i> (Bertelsmann, München 2018) ISBN 978-3-570-10199-5</li></ul></li>
<li><i>Making Medieval Manuscripts</i> (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford 2018) ISBN 978-1-59420-611-5</li>
<li><i>The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket</i> (Allen Lane, 2020)</li>
<li><i>The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club</i> (Allen Lane, 2022)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://opac.regesta-imperii.de/lang_de/autoren.php?name=De+Hamel%2C+Christopher"><i>De Hamel, Christopher</i>.</a> Publikationen in der <a href="RI-Opac" title="RI-Opac">bibliografischen Datenbank der Regesta Imperii</a>.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/de-hamel-christopher-frances-rivers-1950"><i>de Hamel, Christopher (Frances Rivers) 1950- | Encyclopedia.com.</i></a><span class="Abrufdatum"> Abgerufen am 14. November 2020</span>.</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3AChristopher+de+Hamel&rft.title=de+Hamel%2C+Christopher+%28Frances+Rivers%29+1950-+%7C+Encyclopedia.com&rft.description=de+Hamel%2C+Christopher+%28Frances+Rivers%29+1950-+%7C+Encyclopedia.com&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.encyclopedia.com%2Farts%2Feducational-magazines%2Fde-hamel-christopher-frances-rivers-1950"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Christopher de Hamel, Patricia Lovett: <cite style="font-style:italic">The macclesfield alphabet book : a facsimile</cite>. British Library, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-7123-5804-0.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Christopher+de+Hamel&rft.au=Christopher+de+Hamel%2C+Patricia+Lovett&rft.btitle=The+macclesfield+alphabet+book+%3A+a+facsimile&rft.date=2010&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=9780712358040&rft.place=London&rft.pub=British+Library" style="display:none"> </span></span>
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