Some of the pages are missing, possibly because of a theft in the 11th century, but it is remarkably complete for a text that is so old. The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a ...

Some of these illuminated manuscripts were embellished with luxurious ... such a valuable pigment so early and in the mouth of an 11th century woman in rural Germany is unprecedented.

were radiocarbon-dated to the 10th and 11th centuries. Other ruled out theories include pigment transfer from the kissing of illuminated manuscripts, but the practice was not common until some ...

the 8th-century “Lindisfarne Gospels” (“probably even now the most precious illuminated manuscript in Britain”) and much else. In adjoining cases were the Old English poem “Genesis ...

Manuscript books are one of the most engaging ... across almost a thousand years of history from St Anselm in the 11th century to Greene in the 20th. Particular highlights include the court ...