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

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 ...

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

Over the centuries, works of medieval literature have become lost. Today, roughly 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works and just nine percent of individual manuscripts produced in Europe during ...