Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – have been ...

A 15th Century manuscript containing the unusual treatment features in a new exhibition detailing the bizarre cures that were used for all manner of ills in the medieval period. The 'cure' for ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are ... long before the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. Generations upon generations of caretakers have ensured the ...

A study provides new insights into the many overlooked women scribes who wrote manuscripts in the Middle Ages.

The Huntington has acquired a print of Jesus in the Mount of Olives that had been pasted inside its Gutenberg Bible for 400 ...

Female scribes were responsible for producing at least 110,000 handwritten manuscripts between 400 ... the printing press in the middle of the 15th century, books had to be written by hand.

Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a healthy life. The cures include the use of crushed weasel testicles to ...

With its sumptuous painted miniatures in tempera and ink, gold and silver, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry is the most treasured illuminated manuscript of the collections of Château de ...

In a partnership with the Newberry Library in Chicago, the University purchased partial ownership of a 15th century legal manuscript. The manuscript, written primarily in Latin, details the laws of ...

One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure to help a woman to conceive. It said: ‘Take three or four weasel ...