Plants and pots, from the Voynich Manuscript. credit: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, General Collection, folio 99v, MS 408 Often described as the “world’s most ...

Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in England.

When library archivists at the University of Cambridge in England inspected the cover of a 16th century property record, they realized it was made of pages repurposed from a medieval manuscript.

In terms of ancient, indecipherable books, no manuscript matches the sheer mystery of the Voynich manuscript. This ancient text, filled with strange and fantastical illustrations of unidentified ...

Created around 1458, the manuscript is one of only seven surviving illuminated manuscripts of its kind. It is distinguished by gold and silver script on black-coloured vellum, a technique that ...

New York authorities returned a 16th-century manuscript known as the Hernandarias Manuscript to Paraguay after it was stolen from the country's National Archive over a decade ago and resurfaced at ...

A 16th century manuscript that was stolen from Paraguay’s National Archives more than a decade ago before making its way to a rare book dealer on the Upper West Side is being repatriated to ...

“There are less than 40 surviving manuscripts of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin,” Cambridge notes, “with each one unique since they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes.

The project was based on an ancient bamboo text called the "Shi Fang" manuscript. The text offers a wealth of information on ancient Chinese cooking practices, offering recipes from steamed fish ...

The manuscripts of Bhagavad Gita and Bharat Muni's Natyashastra are among the 74 new documentary heritage collections that have been added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. Entries on ...