It recently acquired two pieces of parchment containing Germanic neumes likely drawn in the 1200s. "The notation here kind of looks like chicken scratch," Western music professor Kate Helsen explains.

LISTEN: How medieval neumes can help decipher what 9th century chants sounded like. ... "To really experience them and to hold the original in your hands, to feel the texture of the parchment, ...

This is even truer of a medieval manuscript, and the reason why the written words and images remain so vibrant today is because they are preserved in this ideal packaging. This is an edited extract ...

She majored in medieval studies, and in a senior-year class, she ran her fingers across medieval parchment for the first time. I’m touching something that somebody touched 800 years ago, she thought ...

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Using CT scanning on 16th-century books, researchers uncovered bits of parchment salvaged from handwritten manuscripts. By Katherine Kornei Even in medieval times, recycling was in vogue: Bits of ...