The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most famous mysteries in ancient codicology or paleography. This illustrated manuscript, authored by an unknown writer and written in an undeciphered alphabet, ...

Don't Break My Rice Bowl by Robert H Dodd is a fictional memoir, inspired by her father's experiences in Vietnam. He gave ...

J.R.R. Tolkien fans can save big on the gorgeous Illustrated Edition of the fantasy novelist's best-known work not named The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. The Silmarillion Tolkien Illustrated ...

Illustrated manuscripts and books reached unprecedented levels of technical skill and refinement and architecture of the palace and mosque provided the backdrop to court life and religious practice.

“When I got Clothilde Missal, a manuscript illustrated by Clothilde Coulaux, I found it surprisingly heavy.” When she asked the museum’s book conservator why it was so weighty, she was told ...

"We've got everything from a 1450 illuminated manuscript, which is extremely rare, all the way through the modern literature" said Ms Cooper. Among the collection is a first edition set of Thomas ...

Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of manuscripts that included passages from biblical texts, philosophical treatises, classical literature and theological commentaries ...

Dr Freeman said medieval medicine ‘wasn’t simply superstition or blind trial-and-error’, but guided by ‘elaborate and sophisticated ideas’ about the body and the influence upon it of the ...

This richly illustrated manuscript was written and created twenty two years into the reign of the great Mughal emperor and a descendant of Timur, Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, in 1577-78 AD.

In Sport Illustrated's ultimate NFL mock draft, Matt Verderame went through and drafted the best player at ever pick Nos. 1 to 224. Of those selections, six were taken by the Rams since the 1970 ...

However, in 2022, before Fontaine and his research team were able to draw any conclusions, the manuscript was sold at an auction for the low sum of €300 (£257). The auction catalogue attributed it to ...

Gouache and ink heightened with gold on paper, 2 lines to the page written in nasta'liq in black ink, verso with 25 lines of black nasta'liq ...