Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...