A super old manuscript in a Shropshire school library had been catalogued and shelved for generations. Only recently did ...

A shopper got a surprise when he picked up a 700-year-old script for $75, per the Maine Monitor. Academic Lisa Fagin Davis confirmed the piece was genuine, and could be worth up to $10,000. Will ...

A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in ...

An exhibition at the Walters Art Musuem traces the appearences of cats in medieval manuscripts, from Europe, Asia, and the ...

Naked women in pools of green liquid, strange looking plants, and text written in an unknown alphabet; they can all be found on the delicate parchment pages of a mysterious manuscript from the 15th ...

In 2010, the J. Paul Getty Museum was drawn into a lawsuit over a piece of art in its collection. The Armenian Church sued the Getty Museum for the return of eight pages of an illuminated manuscript ...

In 1912, a rare book dealer named Wilfried Voynich came across a unique find at a Jesuit college in Italy. With its colorful illustrations and odd curlicue writing, this specimen was unlike any other ...

The medieval prayer book looks modern from the outside, with its sleek white leather cover added by a conservator for safekeeping. Open the pages, however, and peer into a bygone era. There, images of ...

Students in an art history elective offered this past spring at Rochester Institute of Technology had the unique opportunity to take part in a nationwide program sponsored by antique bookseller Les ...

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