Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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In 2019, the fragile manuscript was discovered in an unlikely place in a Cambridge library – tucked in as the binding for an old book ... such brightness that it illuminated the whole room." ...

More than 1,200 years ago Celtic monks painstakingly recorded the Book of Kells ... − it is one of very few exact copies of the illuminated manuscript. Less than 1,500 copies exist worldwide ...