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.

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

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 ...

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 ...

The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

A show at the Morgan Library & Museum centers on a popular travel compendium of the medieval era, filled with exaggerations ...