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I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges Voltaire Voltaire wasn t far from the truth when he made this remark about Indic wisdom becoming accessible through the ...

Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berr, the Condé Museum in the Château de Chantilly, France, until 5 October Exhibitions Chantilly Illuminated manuscripts ...

While the role of Irish monks in writing the manuscripts was already known, this research reveals that the books travelled from Ireland to St. Gallen with them, on their journey over a thousand ...

Illuminated manuscripts back in Ireland for the first time in more than 1,000 years National Museum of Ireland’s St Gallen exhibition highlights historical links between Irish missionary and ...

MEDIEVAL scribes filled vo­lumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also depended on a ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has documented the widespread use of seal skins in Romanesque bookbindings of manuscripts produced between the 12th and 13th centuries in Cistercian ...

The 15th century 'cure' for infertility advised women to burn and then grind down weasel testicles and a common plant, before putting the mixture into their vagina.

No matter how sophisticated book production became in the medieval period, there would never be two identical manuscripts. Every medieval manuscript is a single unique object, largely sourced from ...

In his 2017 book, “ Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World,” Christopher de Hamel recounted the backstories for a dozen of these masterpieces, and he did ...

A Ridgefield man is collaborating with a team of academics to learn more about history and music after discovering Medieval musical manuscripts that are 800 years old. Hundreds of books surround ...

In the library museum, which has glass cabinets full of illuminated books from the Ottoman Empire and the Caucasus, as well as many from Bosnia’s medieval kingdom, I was told about a film that ...