Western University's Archives and Research Collections Centre recently acquired two medieval neumes, which are some of the earliest forms of written music. Western music professor Kate Helsen says the ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

Using CT scanning on 16th-century books, researchers uncovered bits of parchment salvaged from handwritten manuscripts. By Katherine Kornei Even in medieval times, recycling was in vogue ...

In 2010, bioarchaeologist Matthew Collins of the University of Copenhagen and his colleagues realized that the parchment used in medieval manuscripts, which is made of scraped and stretched animal ...

When medieval scribes sat down to preserve the literature and records of their day, they often wrote on parchment – a paper-like material made from animal skins. What they didn’t know was that ...

Based on what he’d seen in a manuscripts class at Colby College, the document looked downright medieval.And it was a bargain at $75.Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais Missal ...

Based on what he'd seen in a manuscripts class at Colby College, the document looked downright medieval. And it was a bargain at $75. Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais Missal ...

Based on what he'd seen in a manuscripts class at Colby College, the document looked downright medieval. And it was a bargain at $75 US. Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais ...

A sticker said 1285 AD. Based on what he’d seen in a manuscripts class at Colby College, the document looked downright medieval. And it was a bargain at $75. Academics confirmed the parchment was from ...