Paper-eating beetles threaten 100,000 books at country’s oldest library - Restoration workers are racing against the clock to save the centuries-old books ...

In the mid-16th century, a bookbinder picked up a piece of parchment — one that was already centuries old — and used it to bind a book of poetry. This parchment's text remained unreadable for ...

Researchers at Northwestern University developed a new way to see inside old books.

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin.

Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a "medieval best seller." Its first half tells the story of how Sir Gawain ...

Tales of Merlin and King Arthur Resurface After 750 Years, Hidden in a Bookbinding 500 years ago, someone decided to use parts of a now-rare manuscript to bind together property records.

An intensive 2-week exploration of the medieval book. Sponsored by University Libraries and the Medieval Institute. Offered through WMU Extended University Programs. Available as a professional or ...

Summers gives workshops in bookbinding for individuals, college students, and groups, including a Girl Scout troop from Westminster, and he and his wife have an antiquarian bookshop attached to his ...

After university, Linette then worked as a conference organiser for the Institute of Medieval Studies but she had now got a taste of bookbinding and wanted to learn more.

An early version of a raunchy medieval manuscript was being used as a book binding.

A piece of vellum discovered in a 16th century book has revealed astonishing links between medieval Irish doctors and a Persian physician.

A sixth-century parchment that was recycled as bookbinding material in 1537 is now legible once more.