Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

The Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript of the Christian gospels, the New Testament books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2010, the J. Paul Getty Museum was drawn into a lawsuit over a piece of art in its collection. The Armenian Church sued the Getty Museum for the return of eight pages of an illuminated manuscript ...

The medieval prayer book looks modern from the outside, with its sleek white leather cover added by a conservator for safekeeping. Open the pages, however, and peer into a bygone era. There, images of ...

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 ...

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Naked women in pools of green liquid, strange looking plants, and text written in an unknown alphabet; they can all be found on the delicate parchment pages of a mysterious manuscript from the 15th ...

A shopper got a surprise when he picked up a 700-year-old script for $75, per the Maine Monitor. Academic Lisa Fagin Davis confirmed the piece was genuine, and could be worth up to $10,000. Will ...