The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most obsessed-over historical enigmas. A medieval book dating from the late 15th or 16th century, its strange, flowing script has never been deciphered, its ...

There are four original manuscripts containing poetry in Old English—the now-defunct language of the medieval Anglo-Saxons—that have survived to the present day. No more, no less. They are: the ...

The Library of Congress has classified ‘Alcoholics Anonymous' as one of the 88 ‘Books That Shaped America.' ...

A real manuscript is, as the name suggests, handwritten. To read it is to touch and smell the past. The archivists in museums and in the rare-books rooms of libraries handle them with white gloves, ...

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...

A miniature unpublished manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old will go on sale for $1.25 million at a New York City book fair later this month. The work titled “A Book of ...

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 ...

v. 1: The material basis / Agnieszka Helman-Ważny -- Format and layout / Brandon Dotson and Agnieszka Helman-Ważny -- The written text / Sam van Schaik, Hanna Schneider, and Matthew T. Kapstein -- ...

Plate XXXIX: The Orbed Sulphur (all images from ‘The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale’s Lost Manuscript, courtesy American Museum of Natural History and Abrams Books) Cover of ‘The ...

Attention bibliophiles and antiquarians: did you know that some old manuscripts are downright deadly? In modern society, it’s entirely safe to browse through books, but for centuries, flipping through ...

A Psalter (a standalone book of Psalms) open to a page showing the contest between the Archangel Michael and the dragon. (Courtesy Lewis & Clark College) There are some really old books on display at ...