The Archimedes Palimpsest is one of the treasures of antiquity. This medieval manuscript, dating the to the 10th century, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Its indecipherable text and illustrations have stumped scholars throughout history. Here’s what we know about the Voynich Manuscript’s content and creation, and whether the text is truly as mystifying ...

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 ...

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 ...