Book containing early versions of the Merlin and Grail legends has remained in private hands for 700 years ...

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 ...

Researchers in Ireland marveled at their computer screen as they flipped through the digitized pages of a medieval book ...

Using CT scanning on 16th-century books, researchers uncovered bits of parchment salvaged from handwritten manuscripts. By Katherine Kornei Even in medieval times, recycling was in vogue: Bits of ...

‘Speechless’ experts uncover oldest English poem hiding in medieval book - The poem was composed by a Northumbrian worker in ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes ...

The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library.

Researchers investigated 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts from an abbey in France that were clad in furry outer covers. Matthew Collins In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in a ...

A lost medieval manuscript in Rome has revealed an early version of 'Cædmon’s Hymn', linking English poetry’s origins to a ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A medieval art historian has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize for her book on the study of absences, “lacunae” and gaps in manuscripts from the Middle Ages ...

12th century French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others. Protein fingerprint and DNA analysis revealed them to be not ...