New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realizing ... including in the 13th-century manuscript, the ...

The Vatican Film Library holds more than 200 full or partial facsimiles of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. A manuscript facsimile is a published, printed photographic reproduction that captures ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and 1500 C.E.

Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound volume from the 1300s containing the earliest versions of the masterly medieval poem "Pearl ...

A bibliometric analysis of medieval manuscript colophons reveals that at least 1.1% of manuscripts from 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, totaling over 110,000 texts, with about 8,000 ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...