Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the how the creation of early English books, from their hand-written language to the bindings ...

Book containing early versions of the Merlin and Grail legends has remained in private hands for 700 years ...

Dropping your phone in the toilet feels catastrophic—but 800 years ago, a merchant in Germany did the same thing with a tiny ...

The margins of a medieval manuscript from a convent in Naples, Italy, are decorated with doodles of what are apparently devils, a farm animal and a person that were likely drawn by children, a new ...

While studying a rare medieval manuscript in Oxford’s Weston Library, PhD student Jessica Hodgkinson noticed something unusual: a series of small, barely visible indentations at the bottom of page 18.

A bargain hunter spent just $75 on a medieval script at a yard sale that could be worth as much as $10,000. The Maine Monitor reported last week that Will Sideri picked up the 700-year-old document at ...

Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound ...

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 ...

Kings, priests and peasants were all at the mercy of medieval comics, a rare manuscript from the 15 th century has revealed. The ‘mad and offensive’ comedy was unearthed at the National Library of ...

A 750-year-old medieval manuscript, the oldest surviving medieval text written solely in Welsh, has revealed even more intrigue, as researchers have uncovered once-hidden ghostly faces and text on the ...