A page with illuminations, or ornate medieval illustrations, from the Darlington Bible, a 14th century manuscript housed at the Indiana State Library. The Bible will be the focus of a special program, ...

A long time ago, in a place far away, a manuscript was created with an enigmatic figure who looks a great deal like a certain little — and yet... A long time ago, in a place far away, a manuscript was ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

The Shem Tov Bible, a stunning 14th-century manuscript created by the renowned kabbalist Rabbi Shem Tov ben Abraham Ibn Gaon, will be displayed in the National Library of Israel. The National Library ...

A replica of the ancient text forms part of an exhibition exploring Medieval Kilkenny through the lens of Bishop Richard ...

New purchases provide a fuller picture of medieval Jewish life, including a 14th-century Spanish Bible from the Castile, one of only three from the region. Just over a year ago, the Metropolitan ...

This fall, six Princeton undergraduate students in the course “Arts of the Medieval Book” are exploring the technology and function of books through a historical perspective. Working firsthand with ...

It was just a routine chore that young (29) Mathematician Derek Price intended to do in the Peterhouse Library at the University of Cambridge. All he wanted was a look at a certain 14th century ...

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Six centuries after immortalizing British medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer’s seminal work “The Canterbury Tales,” an anonymous scribe has been unveiled as the long-haired son of an English landowner.