The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

Some 750 years ago, a medieval scribe copied stories of a knight and a wizard into a manuscript. The knight was Sir Gawain and the wizard was Merlin, two mythical characters of Arthurian legend ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 to 1626 CE were copied by female scribes, with a probable total exceeding ...