We tend to accept at face value the glamorous claims of today’s exotic travel ads, however untrue they sometimes turn out to be. But how trustworthy were the alluring illustrations and evocative ...

Collections of essays, bibliographies, editions and reference tools are not eligible ... five copies of any book to pursue its work efficiently. If a book is nominated by a reader, the Medieval ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval ...

Credit: Cambridge University Library / CHIL Experts combined multiple conservation tools and techniques ... parchment for new books was a common practice during the medieval era, meaning many ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has found. It is rare to find medieval manuscripts in their original ...

This story could be done with basically any set of medieval characters. It’s well-structured, but you’ve read this story several times. There’s signs that things will pick up as the book ...

So last week, a group of researchers who were studying a set of medieval books published their findings. They had been looking into the material used to make the books' covers. MARY LOUISE KELLY ...

She gave away some furniture, asked friends to hold on to her books, and sold off a collection ... It was her custom-made trumpet marine: a stringed medieval instrument that, when bowed, generates ...

Science is helping researchers judge books by their covers — and revealing surprising beneficiaries of medieval trading routes in the process. Dozens of rare, fur-covered volumes from 12th and ...

(CNN) — Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library ...