Dubrovka venit ad Miskonem’ (Dąbrówka arrives at Mieszko’s court) – a manuscript with these words, dating back a thousand ...

It’s not a large exhibition, but it’s a versatile one, covering medieval bookmaking technology and science, the social lives ...

In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in the hairy hides of animals like deer or boar to act […] ...

History is full of manuscript books, scriptures, and codex collections that are preserved in historical institutions for ...

One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...

The Arabic script influenced several South Asian languages such as Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, and Malayalam. While ...

Built in the 15th century, Sarkhej Roza on the outskirts of Ahmedabad holds many different worlds within its vast expanse ...

A folio from a rare 15th century Timurid manuscript will be offered at Christie’s in London on May 1. It was made in Herat in 1466 as part of the richly illustrated manuscript known as the Nahj ...

Friendship reveals itself most clearly in difficult moments. Not in grand gestures, but in consistent presence. In showing up ...

The oldest known 'Divan' (a collection of poetry or collected works) of the Turkish poet and great thinker Yunus Emre has been brought to light through ...

Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales ... by the University of Cambridge on March 25. The manuscript is part of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin, a French ...