One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

Weasel testicles, stargazing and royal remedies feature in an exhibition on our ancestors’ quest to cure everything from ...

The "romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated codex on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge about the past — and not all of the information is written on their pages. Élodie Lévêque at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and her ...

Additionally, the work draws from Western artistic traditions referencing medieval European tapestries and illuminated manuscripts from the Books of Hours. The creation of Concordia required ...

The extensive use of these skins does not appear to follow a hierarchical criterion: manuscripts of varying content and value ... they of the networks that brought them from distant lands? Medieval ...

By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes filled volumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going on display for the very first time. The 15th-century Arma Christi was found in a shoebox filled with leaflets ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going on display for the very first time. The 15th-century Arma Christi was found in a shoebox filled with ...

The Arma Christi is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre in York A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going ...