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 ...

The collection of 16th-century books is considered the finest such library to exist outside Europe. A page from Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting, ca. 1638–1641.

The 16th-century architect harnessed the splendor and ornament of civic structures, including a double-story colonnade and ...

The author, historian and broadcaster chooses her favourite books. Her latest book is "The Marchesa", a biographical novel ...

Forest’s volume is also a three-parter—Prepare, Serve, Drink—that could more or less pass as a modern-day wine primer in advice if not tone: Wine-tasting is Forest’s love language. “When—slowly, ...

“A page from a rare 15th-century illuminated manuscript was among the items recovered, many dating back to the Tudor period,” the U.K.’s National Trust explained in a statement. “Finds ...

Like those books, Pentiment entwines its murder plot with debates on the philosophy of the day, clashes between church doctrine and 'heretical' theories, and the value of art, literature, and folk ...