When King Henry VIII's wife Anne Boleyn was executed in 1536, her Book of Hours went missing for centuries ... they were completely illuminated,” the curator recalls. McCaffrey’s theory ...

That milestone has now been reached, and in November the University of California, Berkeley, where the manuscript is in a ... who this year published a book about Lyon called Mark Twain's Other ...

With piped-in sounds and fragrant scents, the bird and fruit illustrations of ornate manuscripts spring to life at the Museum ...

National Museum of Ireland's St Gallen exhibition highlights historical links between Irish missionary and Switzerland ...

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When library archivists at the University of Cambridge in England inspected the cover of a 16th century property record, they realized it was made of pages repurposed from a medieval manuscript.

Now, a separate new discovery adds weight to the old adage about not judging a book by its cover ... was made of pages repurposed from a medieval manuscript. Known as the “Suite Vulgate du ...

CAMBRIDGE, England (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A rare sequel to the legendary tale of Merlin and King Arthur was found on a medieval manuscript that had been stitched together and repurposed as a book ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book ... with such brightness that it illuminated the whole room.” ...