First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a "medieval best seller." Its first half tells the story of how Sir Gawain, ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

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 ...

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

Findings indicate that female scribes produced at least 110,000 manuscripts during the Middle Ages, with roughly 8,000 still surviving. Known female scriptoria account for only a small fraction of ...

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

The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance. By Paul Lacroix, Curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.) ...

During the Middle Ages, it was common to find monks huddled over their desks, painstakingly copying manuscripts by hand. But women played an important role in this work, too, according to a new ...