The Australian Institute of Art History and Newman College invite you to a presentation by Christopher de Hamel, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and Australia: From Sir George Grey to the Kerry Stokes Collection
5.00 – 6.30pm, Tuesday 12 May 2026
Allan and Maria Myers Academic Centre Newman Academic Centre via Newman College, 887 Swanston Street, Parkville
Christopher de Hamel is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was responsible for all sales of illuminated manuscripts at Sotheby’s for 25 years and was later librarian of the Parker Library in Cambridge. His first of very many books on manuscripts was published in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1970 and his most recent, The Migrants, A Memoir with Manuscripts, in April 2026. His book, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts won the Wolfson History Prize.
Seating is limited – register by Friday 8th of May at Eventbrite
With the generous support of the Kerry Stokes Collection
Image credit: Master of Claude de France (illuminator), The Hours of Claude of France, c.1522-1523, Fol: The Annunciation, Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth.
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