The 14th-century Shem Tov Bible is now being exhibited at the National Library of Israel, a year after a family bought it for ...

Although the monastery was dissolved in 1805, its library was spared and remains brimming with ancient manuscripts today. Honouring the two countries’ shared history, the Swiss library has ...

It is a testament to the developers that the experience of playing Pentiment is as close to occupying an illuminated medieval manuscript as we are likely to get, but it also shows a remarkable ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript has been uncovered in a York convent's archive. Dr Hannah Thomas discovered the 15th-Century Arma Christi at Bar Convent while cataloguing the religious ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The History Museum of Mobile is excited to announce the next major exhibition, Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, 13th – 18th Centuries, opening January 10 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A nativity scene on public property is again stirring anger in an eastern Iowa town. This time, that anger is directed mostly at an out-of-town atheist group who are ...

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.

before her birth and (to the right) the Nativity of Mary, her blessing by the priests ... This is a fifth-sixth century Greek illuminated manuscript; it is one of the oldest illustrated biblical ...

View A FUNERAL SERVICE, THE NATIVITY, and THE VIRGIN AND CHILD, three historiated initials on three leaves from an early Book of Hours, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum By French ...

The Potomac, Maryland, artist has focused on Hebrew illuminated manuscripts for much of her career and her deep research in medieval European and Middle Eastern paintings and manuscripts informs ...