Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

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

However, in 2022, before Fontaine and his research team were able to draw any conclusions, the manuscript was sold at an ...

Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...

Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of manuscripts that included passages from biblical texts, philosophical treatises, classical literature and theological commentaries ...

Ancient Syriac manuscript from the private collection of Raad Abdul-Ahed from Dohuk, northern Iraq, as photographed in 2015. (AP/Bram Janssen) For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities ...

A 16th century manuscript that was stolen from Paraguay’s National Archives more than a decade ago before making its way to a rare book dealer on the Upper West Side is being repatriated to ...

New York authorities returned a 16th-century manuscript known as the Hernandarias Manuscript to Paraguay after it was stolen from the country's National Archive over a decade ago and resurfaced at ...

Manuscript experts and enthusiasts have lauded Qatar's role in preserving Arabic manuscripts. The commendation came during a seminar organized by the Qatar National Library (QNL) and the Ministry ...

A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts—a practice known as ...

The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also depended on a menagerie of beasts: The covers of these and other volumes were fashioned from the skins of calves, goats ...

Nearly 13,000 unpublished manuscripts with the Oriental Research Institute (ORI), whose contents are not known to the world, will be catalogued and published in an initiative that may provide ...