Seventeen medieval manuscript fragments have been identified in Guernsey with support from Kent manuscript expert Dr. David ...

Seventeen fragments of medieval manuscripts that had been "hidden in plain sight" for centuries have been uncovered in ...

Researchers say texts from 12th to 15th centuries ‘hint at a culture which has not even been imagined’ ...

Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the how the creation of early English books, from their hand-written language to the bindings ...

From tattoos to video games to Game of Thrones, medieval iconography has long inspired fascination, imitation and veneration. Now, thousands of original medieval manuscript and early modern images are ...

Medieval manuscript fragments from Guernsey suggest readers enjoyed poetry, drama and secular stories, challenging the idea ...

Student researchers analyzed this leaf from a Book of Hours (left), a devotional Christian manuscript that dates to the 15th century. The students found traces of French cursive writing beneath the ...

In 1912, a rare book dealer named Wilfried Voynich came across a unique find at a Jesuit college in Italy. With its colorful illustrations and odd curlicue writing, this specimen was unlike any other ...

The margins of a medieval manuscript from a convent in Naples, Italy, are decorated with doodles of what are apparently devils, a farm animal and a person that were likely drawn by children, a new ...

What happens when a cat sneaks over and pees all over the precious manuscript that you’ve spent months of your life inscribing? If you’re this 15th century monk, you leave a note cursing the cat and ...