The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey has uncovered the use of a mysterious, surprising skin. The study homed ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval ...

However, desiring a life devoted to God, he retired to different abbeys in Europe such as the Abbey of Montfaucon-d'Argonne, in France, Bobbio Abbey founded by the Irish missionary St. Columbanus ...

Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound volume from the 1300s containing the earliest versions of the masterly medieval poem "Pearl ...

More than 1,000 years ago, Irish monks took precious manuscripts to the European continent to protect them from Viking raids and to spread Christianity and scholarship – a glow of culture in ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

“Downton Abbey 3” will mark a significant conclusion for the beloved franchise, as the title of the film — as revealed on Thursday — suggests this really is the end of the road for ...

ProWritingAid has introduced its Manuscript Analysis tool, a feature specifically designed to assist authors in enhancing their manuscripts through developmental editing. This innovative tool ...

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 ...

“There are less than 40 surviving manuscripts of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin,” Cambridge notes, “with each one unique since they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes.