The tradition of building up to lighting eight oil lamps (plus one shamash, or servitor) over the Hanukkah period began in ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

However, some medieval manuscripts are still located in archives and museums in Norway, Denmark, and also Sweden. So, Lorenz's search has taken him on a journey through the nooks and crannies of ...