Tribune News NetworkDohaQatar National Library hosted a symposium bringing together experts and researchers to examine the history and continuing traditions of book and manuscript production in ...

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

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

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

The "romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated codex on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the ...

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

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

The silver Kiddush cup, an object used to sanctify the Shabbat and Jewish holidays, evidences medieval Jewish communities in Central Asia.

But unlike other medieval libraries, the Clairvaux Romanesque manuscripts have an additional second cover, called a chemise, according to the study. The cover isn’t made from fabric or paper, but ...

The medieval artefact, which is inscribed with both Hebrew and Arabic, will be on display for a limited time before heading ...

A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of ...

So just what is the Voynich Manuscript, and would the information contained in it really revolutionize our understanding of Medieval history, if we could just decode it? Appeals court rules Trump ...