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

Although cartoonist R. Crumb generated plaudits and attention with his new book, “The Book of Genesis Illustrated” (Norton, 2009) is not the only illustrated bible being released this season.

What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ...

Analyzing pigments in medieval illuminated manuscript pages is opening up some ... "Fragments are great because you can document or cover more topics, styles, techniques and periods with 50 ...

This single leaf was later used to cover a much later codex ... monks singing the actual music that is written on the manuscript. Illuminated leaf from a mid-15th century Parisian Book of Hours.

The most valuable collection of historic illuminated manuscripts ever to be offered at auction was unveiled for the first time today. Worth £16 million, the exquisitely illustrated selection of ...

While Muskegon does not have the original from 800 A.D. − that’s preserved at Trinity College in Dublin − it is one of very few exact copies of the illuminated manuscript. Less than 1,500 ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into ... glittered with such brightness that it illuminated the whole room.” ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver.