It’s not a large exhibition, but it’s a versatile one, covering medieval bookmaking technology and science, the social lives ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...

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

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 ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), archivists have finally been able to peer inside the obscured texts—without ever ...

More than a millennium after they were carried abroad for safekeeping, a collection of early Irish monastic manuscripts is returning to Ireland for a landmark exhibition at the National Museum in Dubl ...

A piece of parchment wrapped around a 16th century volume of property records has turned out to be a treasure beyond ...

Apeike Umolu explores what the University Library’s latest exhibition can teach us about female healthcare in medieval ...