An exhibition at the Walters Art Musuem traces the appearences of cats in medieval manuscripts, from Europe, Asia, and the ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In 2003, when the Getty Museum acquired three images from the 15th-century manuscript Hours of Louis XII, its curators had a hunch that one of the pictures was incomplete. Their suspicions made sense: ...

Sideri had taken a class on medieval manuscripts while at Colby College. When he saw the framed page with a yellow sticker that read “1285 AD. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. $75.,” he texted his ...

Shortly after Christmas last year, Gina Hurley and Eric Ensley visited the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s facility on Winchester Avenue where one of the world’s great collections of ...

Analyzing pigments in medieval illuminated manuscript pages is opening up some new areas of research bridging the arts and sciences, report investigators. Analyzing pigments in medieval illuminated ...

To “doodle” means to draw or scrawl aimlessly, and the history of the word goes back to the early 20th century. Scribbling haphazard words, squiggly lines and mini-drawings, however, is a much older ...

Jeff Himler Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 7:01 a.m. | Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 7:01 a.m. Some dragons popped up in the latest summer course led by history instructor William Campbell and two colleagues at ...

Conservator Sally Kilby and Błażej Mikuła photograph inside the folds of a medieval manuscript that was used as the cover for another book later on. - Cambridge University Library Researchers have ...

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