MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Here, have a glimpse at some of the most significant early manuscripts to have turned up in modern times—as well as the first printed book, which spelled the end of the handwritten volume.

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...

The rediscovered manuscript contains the lost fifth and seventh books of the volume "The Conics ... and also the scribes possessed, and which modern people, spoiled by their gadgets, mobile ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...

The painstaking process wound up taking years, given that the fragile manuscript had been recycled inside a book that was itself centuries old. “We really needed to go into the nooks and crannie ...

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library unveiled its latest temporary exhibition ... From early copies of the Quran to more modern documents, it features a myriad of objects — ranging in ...

This is the first time the manuscript will be offered for sale. There is an estimate of €400,000 – 600,000 as an opening bid, as part of Sotheby’s Paris online auction of books and manuscripts.