A bargain hunter spent just $75 on a medieval script at a yard sale that could be worth as much as $10,000. The Maine Monitor reported last week that Will Sideri picked up the 700-year-old document at ...

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 ...

A medieval manuscript featuring an early version of the tales of King Arthur and Merlin, which has been in private hands for ...

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 ...

While studying a rare medieval manuscript in Oxford’s Weston Library, PhD student Jessica Hodgkinson noticed something unusual: a series of small, barely visible indentations at the bottom of page 18.

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 ...

Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound ...

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 ...

Kings, priests and peasants were all at the mercy of medieval comics, a rare manuscript from the 15 th century has revealed. The ‘mad and offensive’ comedy was unearthed at the National Library of ...

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 ...