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 ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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

Some of the most beautiful objects to survive from the mediæval world in the west are the sumptuous illuminated manuscripts ... only for great statement pieces, like the Book of Kells, but private ...

Erik Kain is a writer and critic covering TV shows, movies, video games and books primarily in the "genre" category including fantasy, science-fiction, mysteries, thrillers, post-apocalytpic ...

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 ...

Honoring the late Rabbi Abraham Hamra, the chief rabbi of Syrian Jewry, the library unveiled several of the 12 fragile ...