The 39-folio manuscript includes unpublished passages and will receive a critical edition that illuminates Columbus's ...

The Voynich Manuscript first surfaced in the seventeenth century, when it was acquired by the Bohemian collector Georg Baresch, and later passed into the hands of Athanasius Kircher, the Jesuit ...

Image courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University/Wikimedia Commons For more than a century, scholars and experts have puzzled over the mysterious manuscript known today as ...

A prized manuscript in the University of Michigan library that was believed to have been written by the famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei is a forgery, the university said. The one-page ...

Writing in the early 20th century, the celebrated author James Joyce noted that the Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript ...

The lawyer for the former Vatican employee accused of trying to sell St. Peter's Basilica an allegedly stolen 17th-century manuscript about plans for the massive canopy over the basilica's main altar ...

A U.S. auction house has stopped the sale of a 16th-century manuscript linked to the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes after researchers said it was probably stolen from the national archives of ...