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

Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

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

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

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going on display for the very first time ...

First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

The extensive use of these skins does not appear to follow a hierarchical criterion: manuscripts of varying content and value ... they of the networks that brought them from distant lands? Medieval ...

At first glance, the 16th-century register found ... the court in medieval England. Arthurian romances, too, were historically aimed at noblewomen. Due to the fragility of the manuscript ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found.