A new book by senior advocate Vijay Hansaria re-examines the illustrated Constitution, arguing that its artwork—long ...

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.

One was an recluse, who lived in a confinement that had no door.” The manuscripts on loan to NMI comprise a mixture of books thought to be written in Irish monastic settlements, later travelling ...

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.” ...

The Black Book of Hours is one of the most important objects ... Created around 1458, the manuscript is one of only seven surviving illuminated manuscripts of its kind. It is distinguished by ...

The recipient of this year's TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund, the manuscript will be taken apart and photographed for posterity. Horae beatae marie secundum usum curie romane of Black Book of Hours (ca.

hidden inside another book. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been able to virtually unroll the 700-year-old manuscript to 'unlock its secrets' - without damaging the poorly-preserved ...

But there are other clues about how to read the tapestries in richly illuminated medieval ... such deliciously decorated book is the Wharncliffe Hours: the first manuscript to be acquired by ...

(WALA) - The History Museum of Mobile is excited to announce the next major exhibition, Painted Pages: Illuminated ... Prayer Books, Psalters, Books of Hours, Choir Books, Missals, Breviaries ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver.