Researchers told CBC News the use of seal skins as a book binder starts around the 12th century with the creation of a French abbey — or monastery — by Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk responsible ...

And it's very typical from the 12th and 13th century," Élodie Lévêque said Friday. "Paper didn't exist at the time, so it's all made with parchment. So skin, leather, and it's also made of wood." ...

12th century French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others. Protein fingerprint and DNA analysis revealed them to be ...

It took a team of stonemasons two years to put in place 200 newly cut and reclaimed stones in the Monks' Garden wall at Durham Cathedral. The conservation work began in 2022, which meant one side ...

Just off the dusty ranch road leading to the monks' church is the 2 1/2-acre brick winery building built more than 100 years ago by Leland Stanford, the 19th century robber baron whose Central ...

The Monks' Garden became enclosed when the Galilee Chapel was built in the 12th Century and was used by novice monks in their leisure time. After the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th ...

And it's very typical from the 12th and 13th century," Élodie Lévêque said Friday. "Paper didn't exist at the time, so it's all made with parchment. So skin, leather, and it's also made of wood." ...

This book is among nearly 100 found in France by researchers at the University of Cambridge to be bound with seal skin. The books belong to a French monastery from the 12th century. (Matthew ...

A painstaking restoration project to repair a cathedral's 12th Century wall has been completed. It took a team of stonemasons two years to put in place 200 newly cut and reclaimed stones in the ...