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 ...

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

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

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

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

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 ...

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.

Before the first printing press was invented in the 15th century, books had to be made by hand. It was the monks who were usually put to work making parchment and ink, writing out text, and ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...