Christine de Pizan awakened by Reason, Rectitude, and Justice (detail), F. 1r from Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre des trois Vertus, Paris, France (c. 1405), Boston Public Library, MS f Med. 101 BOSTON, ...

Six years ago, a rare 16th-century illuminated manuscript showed up at auction. Now it’s been reproduced in full and published by Taschen. In 2008, at the Munich auction house Ruef, a kind of miracle ...

These opening letters for one of the psalms are a classic illustration of medieval illumination, relying on vibrant colors, geometric patterns, and illustrated scenes (image courtesy the British ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Book of Kells is a ...

Writing in the early 20th century, the celebrated author James Joyce noted that the Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript depicting the four gospels of the New Testament in Latin—was "the most ...

The aim of this research was to use non-invasive scientific analysis to uncover evidence of the planning process and relationship between pigments used in text copying and artwork production in the ...

The New York Public Library is a great national resource. If it were a natural one, it would be forested with oil rigs and pocked with mines of gold and silver. Being a cultural resource, the ...