What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver. It was ...

In 2023, an unusual, unpublished book dating back to the 1580s surfaced at an auction. The 112-page manuscript bound in animal skin is believed to be the oldest known English book on cheese.. For ...

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents.

"I was completely fascinated," she told The Patriot Ledger. She described the manuscript as a "commonplace book," which isn't quite a journal or a diary but a gathering of materials important to ...

The Book of Kells manuscript is written on vellum — usually prepared by scraping calf skin — and spans 680 pages that experts think were written by at least three different monks.