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

Jamia Millia Islamia has enriched its manuscript collection with the Urdu translation of Kamashastra. The university also added digitized Persian translations of Mahabharata and Padmavat, alongside ...

Many are documented within handwritten medieval manuscripts dating back over a millenia—but some editions are far rarer than others. For example, less than 40 copies are known to exist of a once ...

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 ...

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 ...