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 ...

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver. It was made at ...

The Book of Kells, an approximately 1,200-year-old illuminated manuscript, remains a subject of debate regarding its origins.

Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound ...

The Book of Kells is a richly illuminated manuscript created by Celtic monks around the 8th or 9th century. It contains the four Gospels of the New Testament and is famed for its intricate calligraphy ...

“The Silver Snarling Trumpet” is not your average memoir. But then, Robert Hunter was not your average writer. He’s best known as the poetic lyricist of songs performed for decades by the legendary ...

“The Silver Snarling Trumpet” is not your average memoir. But then, Robert Hunter was not your average writer. He’s best known as the poetic lyricist of songs performed for decades by the legendary ...