Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

As it turns out, a substantial number of medieval manuscripts contain toxic materials such as white lead and red mercury, which were both common pigments used during Coulaux’s lifetime (1878-1931).

Medieval manuscripts ... by ‘elaborate and sophisticated ideas’ about the body and the influence upon it of the wider world and even the cosmos. The manuscripts also revealed that medicine ...

"As every manuscript of the period was copied by hand, it means each one is distinctive and reflects the variations introduced by medieval scribes," the British university said. "The way the ...

One of the most beautiful manuscripts belonged to Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. The richly-illuminated ... not just about how medieval people healed, but how they ...

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge about the past — and not all of the information is written on their pages. Élodie Lévêque at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and her ...

The “Romance” of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated manuscript on his ... some of them recasting it into poetical form in Medieval Greek vernacular. According to researchers, the manuscript ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going on display for the very first time. The 15th-century Arma Christi was found in a shoebox filled with ...