Sketching was my go-to escape activity, and has been throughout my life. By second grade, I was drawing scenes from The Rat ...

I wasn’t taking notes or practicing my letters from the green alphabet ... I’ve developed an interest in illuminated manuscripts or, more to the point, the crazy stuff that scribes leave ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may ... on the wall paintings is in capital letters, and the painters subdued their ...

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

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey ...

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.

Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound volume from the 1300s containing the earliest versions of the masterly medieval poem "Pearl ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A bibliometric analysis of medieval manuscript colophons reveals that at least 1.1% of manuscripts from 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, totaling ...

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

A 15th Century manuscript containing the unusual treatment features in a new exhibition detailing the bizarre cures that were used for all manner of ills in the medieval period. The 'cure' for ...