Nestled in the heart of Sarajevo, the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina houses one of the most extraordinary ...

This is the world of the Très Riches Heures, arguably the greatest and most valuable of all medieval illuminated manuscripts.

New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

A landmark medieval exhibition displaying rare manuscripts ... a rare mid-8th-century illuminated manuscript. The Gospels feature vibrant and striking portraits of the Evangelists, vivid scenes ...

Some of the most beautiful objects to survive from the mediæval world in the west are the sumptuous illuminated manuscripts, often made by monks and nuns in the abbeys that filled the medieval ...

for such an institution to bestow more than a couple of manuscripts at a time is practically unheard of. Words on the Wave: Ireland and St Gallen in Early Medieval Europe is free to visit in the ...

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The manuscript—crafted by candlelight by two Jewish scribes—boasts more than 1,000 pages, hundreds of which are illuminated with ... Decoding Medieval Manuscripts, aims to debunk the notion ...

Fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (Volumes II and III). Photo credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: S1982.84.1-5 ...

In this video, we dive into the enigma of the Voynich Manuscript, a beautifully illustrated book written in an unknown language. No one knows who created it, what it means, or why it exists.

Their facial features and hairstyles suggest that medieval Kashmir was confidently multiethnic and multicultural. Art historian Rob Linrothe, writing in the volume Transmission of Buddhism Across ...