When library archivists at the University of Cambridge in England inspected the cover of a 16th century property record, they realized it was made of pages repurposed from a medieval manuscript.

Plants and pots, from the Voynich Manuscript. credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, General Collection, folio 99v, MS 408 Often described as the “world’s most ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England.

In terms of ancient, indecipherable books, no manuscript matches the sheer mystery of the Voynich manuscript. This ancient text, filled with strange and fantastical illustrations of unidentified ...

The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra accompanies the production relying on the “Carmen Suite,” score by Rodion Shchedrin — with excerpts from Bizet’s score mixed in. “I’m trying to do this ...

Created around 1458, the manuscript is one of only seven surviving illuminated manuscripts of its kind. It is distinguished by gold and silver script on black-coloured vellum, a technique that ...

I think of what another Russian composer, Rodion Shchedrin, did with Bizet in his ballet Carmen Suite. If you have not heard Bizet, Shchedrinized, treat yourself to it. Over the years, some have ...

The project was based on an ancient bamboo text called the "Shi Fang" manuscript. The text offers a wealth of information on ancient Chinese cooking practices, offering recipes from steamed fish ...

“There are less than 40 surviving manuscripts of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin,” Cambridge notes, “with each one unique since they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes.

The manuscripts of Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni's Natyashastra are among the 74 new documentary heritage collections that have been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. Entries on ...