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

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

A Hebrew manuscript, which experts have dated to the eighth century making it the earliest known such object, is on view in ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

A rare manuscript version of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, discovered by Dr. Leah Veronese, reveals how the poem was politically ...

A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes ...

Over the centuries, works of medieval literature have become lost. Today, roughly 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works ...

Homer’s Iliad, one of the most celebrated and studied epic poems in history, has long resisted successful adaptation. While it has inspired countless modern novelists across diverse traditions, its ...

University of Birmingham: A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods. Radiocarbon analysis has dated the ...