They are popular not just for their literary value but for their price tags. These books are priceless pieces of history.

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

The color yellow, associated with Judas in Christian art, symbolizes greed, betrayal, and intentional storytelling through ...

4 May, Acts 9.1-6 (7-20); Psalm 30; Revelation 5.11-end; John 21.1-19 ...

Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

Given the absence of any original manuscripts in Shakespeare's handwriting ... Only four books have had worldwide censuses—the Gutenberg Bible, Audubon's Birds of America and Copernicus ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit ... dynasty text on subjects ranging from agriculture to art, theology and natural sciences. Half of 800 remaining ...

It’s not a large exhibition, but it’s a versatile one, covering medieval bookmaking technology and science, the social lives ...

Now, an Israeli researcher has harnessed computational technology to showcase how the scribes compiling the documents made active editorial choices, shaping the knowledge for future generations and ...

At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property ...

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins ... were rarely depicted in European Medieval art; bestiaries simply referred to the creature as a “sea calf,” which ...