Only exclusive calfskin was used to make parchment in Iceland. Calfskin parchment is called vellum, and it took dozens of ...

Traditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the cultural contexts of the manuscript book. The ...

Will Sideri went to a local estate sale in Maine with the vague hope of picking up a cake mixer. Instead, he stumbled across ...

In Portugal, in the city of Figueira da Foz, medieval manuscripts were discovered in a dumpster. After examination, it turned ...

Artists have used a plethora of supplies to create their masterpieces , but what are today's artists' go-to tools?

The Vatican Film Library holds more than 200 full or partial facsimiles of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. A manuscript facsimile is a published, printed photographic reproduction that captures ...

A rare 13th-century Bible will return to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral more than 700 years after it was written, ...

Ilya Stallone takes the quirky charm of medieval art and mashes it up with the chaos of modern life, creating comics that ...