MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...
Manuscripts drawn from the collections of the university library and Cambridge’s historic colleges will go on display.
Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a healthy life. The cures include the use of crushed weasel testicles to ...
The Cambridge University Library exhibition, Curious Cures: Medicine In The Medieval World, showcases medieval manuscripts ...
Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...
Medieval manuscripts detailing unusual treatments – including an infertility cure made from weasels’ testicles – have been ...
It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the ... whose job it was to "illuminate" manuscripts with decorative illustrations and rich colours. Down in the basement ...
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...
New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...
Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Alexander Dobkin was an American painter who was born in 1908. How much does an ...