“Iris Green,” a pigment extracted from the petals of blue iris flowers, was popular in the medieval era as an alternative to ...
It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey has ...
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A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago
An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from ...
Gibson Library is in a Grade II listed building nestled in Saffron Walden, Essex, and is also home to unique annotated copies ...
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Scholars found a lost medieval masterpiece sitting on a shelf in a British school library
A super old manuscript in a Shropshire school library had been catalogued and shelved for generations. Only recently did ...
A new study has revealed that nine out of every ten Irish manuscripts from the medieval era have been lost forever. A team of scholars from Ireland, Britain, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, and ...
In the 1470s, a Flemish scribe left some meticulously drafted pages of an illuminated manuscript out to dry, only to find out the next day that his cat had trod over them, leaving inky paw prints on ...
What type of images come to mind when you think of medieval art? Knights and ladies? Biblical scenes? Cathedrals? It’s probably not some unfortunate man in the throes of vomiting. It might surprise ...
To “doodle” means to draw or scrawl aimlessly, and the history of the word goes back to the early 20th century. Scribbling haphazard words, squiggly lines and mini-drawings, however, is a much older ...
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Mysterious Voynich manuscript may be a cipher, a new study suggests
A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice to turn languages into glyphs produces text eerily similar to the glyphs in the Voynich manuscript, a new study shows. The finding suggests that an ...
Some dragons popped up in the latest summer course led by history instructor William Campbell and two colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. The fanciful creatures are among ...
Those who study human culture must grapple with what amounts to an incomplete data set, since researchers are limited to poring over the books, manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and other artifacts ...
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