Hidden HandsThis book is an expression of love Sublimely conceived and beautifully written Gerard DeGroot, The Times Immersive, conversational and intensely visual Helen Castor Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded. Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and collectors who made and kept