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Kids can get creative with these fun and free coloring pages for kids, which include friendly monsters, Disney characters and more. Whether it’s a rainy day or quiet time, we’re always looking for ...
We first shared this post in early 2019, long after the peak of the adult coloring fad . But desperate times call for desperate measures, and a globa ...
Experts at the University of St Andrews carried out the analysis by measuring which pages of medieval manuscripts were the dirtiest, and therefore… ...
Visitors to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles can see for themselves what a legal battle that raged for five years was all about. Two brilliantly illuminated pages—part of a table of contents from ...
In these pages, a 15 th-century monk living in southwest Germany tested ideas for the creation of illuminated manuscripts. The website Public Domain Review recently featured images from this book ...
You could call it reading behind the lines. When medieval scribes sat down to preserve the literature and records of their day, they often wrote on parchment – a paper-like material made from ...
Pages from older books were often used to reinforce the spines of books written in the 16th century as the use of the printing press became more widespread. Stephanie Leith studies those materials ...
The Getty Museum will keep eight brilliantly illustrated table of contents pages from a 750-year-old Armenian Bible after settling a long-running lawsuit brought by an American branch of the ...
Researchers have found a long-lost star catalogue hidden on the pages of a medieval manuscript. The erased text, copied during the 5th or 6th centuries AD, consists of excerpts from the work of ...
Stephanie Leith’s work focuses on analyzing the spines of medieval era books to look for clues about life and literature at that time.