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

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.

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

We also don’t know if the catalogues entries represent a good random sample of the total number of manuscripts produced in the Middle Ages. For this reason we might consider 1.1 percent to be a ...

The silver Kiddush cup, an object used to sanctify the Shabbat and Jewish holidays, evidences medieval Jewish communities in ...

The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts detailing treatments ranging from the commonplace to the truly peculiar, ...

Every book was a laborious project during the Middle Ages. And according to a first ... Experts estimate medieval scribes produced over 10 million manuscripts between 400-1500 CE, each one ...

Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a healthy life. The cures include the use of crushed weasel testicles to ...

A recent study by Dr. Alar Läänelaid and his colleagues has provided new insights into the creation of the oldest dated ...