Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century mathematicians to JRR Tolkien.

Members of the Harvard community gathered yesterday in the Barker Center to celebrate the inauguration of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, a new translation series produced and distributed by ...

It wasn’t easy to find a specific book on library shelves in the Middle Ages. The spine title had not yet been invented, and the books weren’t published in standard sizes. But readers didn’t have to ...

A collection of medieval English manuscripts that had been in private hands is on exhibition for the first time in the United States at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library in a special, ...

Old-fashioned sleuthing and modern technology have led to the discovery of a manuscript containing a poem written by a farm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Season 7 premiere of 'Game of Thrones' made it abundantly clear why real libraries of the Middle Ages put chains on their ...

Highlights in these collections include a teaching collection of medieval manuscripts and leaves, significant holdings of medieval studies and early modern materials in facsimile, early printed works ...

Join us for a special opportunity to see a number of medieval manuscripts temporarily on loan from the Newberry and discuss their interpretations. This event is hosted by the Medieval Research Group ...

PANNONHALMA, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could ...

There are grand libraries, and then there is the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. Inside a Benedictine monastery in eastern Switzerland, this Baroque masterpiece holds around 160,000 volumes, including ...

Panel Proposal for the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies Libraries evolved continuously throughout the Middle Ages. Yet, which forms did this evolution take? Which influences contributed ...

Bodleian acquires rare box dated to late 1400s, saying it reveals preoccupation with accessing information on the move is centuries-old Somewhat less portable than today’s mobile information devices, ...