A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going on display for the very first time ...

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

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

Her research focuses on illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, and sculpture of Britain, Ireland, and the Continent in the early medieval period and on the ... she received an honorary Doctor of Letters ...

Technically the term “illuminated,” refers to “medieval manuscripts decorated not only ... how Jewish scribes were to write the holy letters of the bible in Hebrew. The unusual way 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.

Medieval manuscripts ... the most beautiful manuscripts on display belonged to Elizabeth of York, Queen of England, wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. This richly illuminated book ...

This richly illustrated book showcases the medieval fascination with magic through 20 illuminated manuscripts; including an astronomical companion made for Charlemagne’s son, The Sworn Book of ...