This is the world of the Très Riches Heures, arguably the greatest and most valuable of all medieval illuminated manuscripts. Commissioned by the Duc de Berry, the enormously wealthy brother of King ...

Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in ...

Before the War.; A GENTLEMAN OF THE SOUTH. A Memory of the Black Belt. From the Manuscript Memoirs of the late Col. Stanton Elmore. Edited without change by William Garrott Brown.

A 19th century manuscript, which is essentially a pre-Famine census, will be digitalized by the National University of Ireland, in Maynooth, Kildare. The document is the length of Croke Park (400m ...

THE pages crackle, specks of parchment falling to the ground like snowflakes. Wrapped in a white shawl, the book open on his knees on an embroidered velvet cloth, Father Teklehaimanot turns the ...

Manuscripts wrapped in protective, ceremonial coverings known as cā-thup-pa-vā (photo by U Aung Moe) The project aims to preserve Myanmar’s heritage of texts while providing free access to these texts ...

Ancient palm leaf manuscripts neatly tied up, treated with citronella oil, a natural insect repellent and laid on cotton cloth are stored in a wooden cupboard. Carrying the secrets of Sri Lanka’s ...

Conventionally, religious manuscripts are wrapped with cloth and kept securely in beautifully adorned wooden boxes or cupboards that are housed in a library surrounded by water to prevent termites ...

In Bamako, Mali’s dusty capital, a man sits hunched over piles of parchments. He is Boubacar Sadeck, an artisanal copyist of 16th century manuscripts, the last of his kind known to still work in ...