Imagine unlocking a door that leads to ancient wisdom, cosmic chants, and the roots of a civilization that shaped the world.

The rare pictorial copies of “hukumnamas” (edicts) and “messages”, mostly penned by Sikh Gurus, have come in public domain.

Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...

"As every manuscript of the period was copied by hand, it means each one is distinctive and reflects the variations introduced by medieval scribes," the British university said. "The way the ...

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 ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge about the past — and not all of the information is written on their pages. Élodie Lévêque at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and her ...

It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original bindings, but some from the 12th and 13th centuries have been preserved in Cistercian libraries such as Clairvaux and its daughter abbeys.

The extensive use of these skins does not appear to follow a hierarchical criterion: manuscripts of varying content and value ... they of the networks that brought them from distant lands? Medieval ...

Twist is a self-consciously eloquent book in which language is treasured like the glorious illustrations of some medieval manuscript, but it’s also a compelling yarn where everything is turned ...

Science is helping researchers judge books by their covers — and revealing surprising beneficiaries of medieval trading routes in the process. Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and ...