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 ...

Dr Kierri Price gives an online tour of a medieval birth girdle - a long roll of parchment covered in texts and images that ...

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 ...

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...

In the Heege manuscript, an English tutor may have copied the text of a medieval minstrel’s repertoire book. National Library of Scotland If you’ve ever played the video game “Skyrim” or watched a ...

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 ...

This experiment demonstrates the large potential of macro-XRF imaging for the visualization of fragments of medieval manuscripts hidden in early–modern bookbindings. The invention of the printing ...

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 ...