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

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

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 ...

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