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 has ...

More than 500 years ago, while a medieval scribe was carefully copying a religious manuscript by hand, a cat walked across the pages while the ink was still ...

A new study has revealed that nine out of every ten Irish manuscripts from the medieval era have been lost forever. A team of scholars from Ireland, Britain, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and ...

Employing a web application which promotes the use of computer technology in humanities research and instruction, a new Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts allows users to search for ...

Shortly after Christmas last year, Gina Hurley and Eric Ensley visited the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s facility on Winchester Avenue where one of the world’s great collections of ...

Organized by the University Libraries Special Collections Division and the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, the symposium will take place at Mullins Library and the World ...

Call it the Villon epiphany. François Villon was a 15th-century French poet. His work has been passed down in many hand-scribed manuscripts, but none of them are originals in the author's hand. On an ...

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 ...

To "doodle" means to draw or scrawl aimlessly, and the history of the word goes back to the early 20th century. Scribbling haphazard words, squiggly lines and mini-drawings, however, is a much older ...

Students in an art history elective offered this past spring at Rochester Institute of Technology had the unique opportunity to take part in a nationwide program sponsored by antique bookseller Les ...

In Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts, you’ll manage your own manuscript studio, crafting artworks that range from elegant to delightfully strange. As you complete each piece, your humble workspace ...