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 ...

Saturday: Illuminated manuscripts and bookmarks, 1:30 to 3 p.m. Registration is required. For adults and teens Jan. 26: Illuminated manuscripts for kids, grades 2 and up, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

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 ...

These opening letters for one of the psalms are a classic illustration of medieval illumination, relying on vibrant colors, geometric patterns, and illustrated scenes (image courtesy the British ...

Call it the Villon epiphany. François Villon was a 15th-century French poet. His work has been passed down in many hand-scribed manuscripts, but none of them are originals in the author's hand. On an ...

Yearning princesses locked away in castles, heroic knights, hawkish Vikings — fragments of medieval European stories have permeated nearly every aspect of contemporary culture, from Taylor Swift songs ...

Before the first printing press was invented in the 15th century, books had to be made by hand. It was the monks who were usually put to work making parchment and ink, writing out text, and binding ...

Lucy Owens is a Texas-based screenwriter and filmmaker whose work has been recognized at prestigious festivals like Slamdance and the Austin Film Festival. She is a co-founder of the independent ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total exceeding ...

Calligraphy from a 15th century copy of the Qur’an. Photo: The Chester Beatty Library In Bamako, Mali’s dusty capital, a man sits hunched over piles of parchments. He is Boubacar Sadeck, an artisanal ...

For centuries, the image of a monk hunched over a desk, painstakingly copying manuscripts by candlelight, has dominated our perception of scholarship in the Middle Ages. But what about the women? A ...