Stunning early medieval texts and artefacts reveal the legacy of Irish monks and a 1,400-year link with Switzerland ...

National Museum of Ireland's St Gallen exhibition highlights historical links between Irish missionary and Switzerland ...

A book shrine found at the bottom of a Longford lake that has undergone an epic 39 years of conservation work at the National ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another ...

What it is: An illuminated manuscript ... In the early 800s, the monks on Iona relocated to Ireland to avoid such attacks — and they took the manuscript with them. It was then housed for ...

Anyone who has peered over the soft vellum pages of an illuminated ... Medieval Page,” lifts the veil on some of the planning that went into the expensive and lengthy process of making a manuscript.

With piped-in sounds and fragrant scents, the bird and fruit illustrations of ornate manuscripts spring to life at the Museum ...

At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. If the past is a ...

The doodles found in the margins of very old manuscripts ... medieval people thought about the world around them. Images of knights fighting snails first started to emerge in North French ...

Turner, contains over 100 wildly variegated works of art and craft, ranging from ancient astrolabes and medieval illuminated manuscripts, to a bit of contemporary installation art whose glistening ...