Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

New research is helping to demystify the Voynich Manuscript, long hailed as “the most mysterious manuscript in the world.” ...

Matthew Paris’s Book of St. Albans, one of the most finely illustrated medieval manuscripts, has been digitized by the Library of Trinity College Dublin for the first time. The 13th-century ...

Jeff Himler Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 7:01 a.m. | Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 7:01 a.m. Some dragons popped up in the latest summer course led by history instructor William Campbell and two colleagues at ...

At first glance, the writer of an eighth-century biography of Saints Willibald and Winnebald offers few clues regarding her identity, describing herself only as an “unworthy Saxon woman.” Upon closer ...

The illuminated manuscript, confiscated from the Rothschild banking dynasty during the Holocaust, is expected to draw at ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver. It was made at ...

"Unfinished Hours" (1440–50), folios 14v-15r, M.358, at the Morgan Library and Museum. A page speckled with gold rests alongside a completed folio. (photo Elaine Velie/Hyperallergic) At the stately ...

A real manuscript is, as the name suggests, handwritten. To read it is to touch and smell the past. The archivists in museums and in the rare-books rooms of libraries handle them with white gloves, ...

One of the most impressive private collections of illuminated manuscripts and early printed books will be offered at a live auction in New York on April 23, according to Christie’s, which is ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — You can’t judge this book by its cover. A handwritten manuscript of the Declaration of Independence, worth an estimated 2 to 3 million dollars, was found inside an unassuming blue ...