A rare medieval scroll dating back more than 500 years has been discovered in York. The scroll, known as an Arma Christi, features the prayer poem O Vernicle and had sat in an assuming box in the ...

Extremely rare medieval scroll discovered at York’s Bar Convent The best example of an Arma Christi ever discovered An unassuming box in the archives at York’s Bar Convent has yielded the ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript has been uncovered in a York convent's archive. Dr Hannah Thomas discovered the ...

Lent has a single focus and makes singular demands. Three books explore this focus and offer resources to meet the claims the ...

To legitimize its custody of the manuscript, found in an Afghan cave, the Museum of the Bible invoked the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and forged an interfaith coalition of Jews, Christians a ...

Muslims of Senegal consider themselves as followers of Sheikh Ibrahima Fall, and according to their beliefs, physical labor, service, good deeds, and devotion to one's Sufi master (Shaykh), are equal ...

Curious boffins are thrilled after an elaborate 15th century manuscript known as an 'Arma Christi' scroll was found stuffed ...

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

21, 1947, for example, consisted of events like Scripture, Hymns, and Prayers. Of the events ... a short “secular human blessing.” The poem “Mindful” by Mary Oliver spoke abstractly about nature. Even ...

In the special collections library, you will find illuminated manuscripts from the Renaissance, including a 1515 French book of prayers that once belonged ... and the public-participation O, Miami ...