The Codex of Türi, a 15th-century Latin-German dictionary, has been studied from every angle. Its oak covers, long overlooked ...

Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

To read about a similar effort to decipher early medieval manuscripts in a Christian monastery in Egypt, go to "Recovering Hidden Texts." ...

The discovery was made this spring in the Romanian commune of Breaza, Mureș County, which is located in Transylvania. Transylvania is famous for being the setting of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula ...

"As every manuscript of the period was copied by hand, it means each one is distinctive and reflects the variations introduced by medieval scribes," the British university said. "The way the ...

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge about the past — and not all of the information is written on their pages. Élodie Lévêque at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and her ...

Part of a 13th century manuscript containing rare stories about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge University Library. The remarkable text had been repurposed as binding for a ...

It was subjected to various revisions during the Byzantine Empire, some of them recasting it into poetical form in Medieval Greek vernacular. According to researchers, the manuscript is a romance ...

More information: Élodie Lévêque et al, Hiding in plain sight: the biomolecular identification of pinniped use in medieval manuscripts, Royal Society Open Science (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.

It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original bindings, but some from the 12th and 13th centuries have been preserved in Cistercian libraries such as Clairvaux and its daughter abbeys.