It’s like a time machine. So we can shake hands with these people from 2,000 years ago, and we can put them in time much ...

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

The manuscript—crafted by candlelight by two Jewish scribes—boasts more than 1,000 pages, hundreds of which are illuminated with animals and plants in the margins, elaborate Hebrew initials ...

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

He was wearing a silk tunic girded by a silk harness woven with gold and precious stones which glittered with such brightness that it illuminated ... manuscript, bearing telltale decorative ...

Created around 1458, the manuscript is one of only seven surviving illuminated manuscripts of ... physical and digital access for researchers. Initial treatment will focus on removing the ...

Dubrovka venit ad Miskonem’ (Dąbrówka arrives at Mieszko’s court) – a manuscript with these words, dating back a thousand years, can be viewed in the halls of the Krasiński Palace in Warsaw. In the ...

"The way the manuscript has been carefully executed, with decorated initials in red and blue, gave further clues to its origins and helped indicate that it was produced between the end of the 13th ...

It aims at using a combination of advanced scientific methods for the study of illuminated manuscripts, in order to inform interdisciplinary ... some of the art historical questions raised in the ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript ... Insular manuscripts are characterized by their elaborate initial letters, and are often highly decorated ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript ... the Trojan War Insular manuscripts are characterized by their elaborate initial letters, and are ...