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 ...

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 ...

In 2023, an unusual, unpublished book dating back to the 1580s surfaced at an auction.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 ...

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.