Scholars have speculated for centuries about the meaning behind the 15th-century codex and its peculiar illustrations ...

WMU's Medieval Institute Publications has launched Past Imperfect, a new series of short-form books that focus on the Middle Ages ... summaries of research—35,000 words and 100-plus printed pages—that ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Medieval books were often bound with sealskin, as revealed by biocodicological analysis. Initially believed to be made from local animal skins, chemises were ...

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. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval ...

Although such mounts could have served other functions, such as inlays, belt or girdle mounts, this artifact was probably an anchor-plate, part of a book clasp for a medieval codex, possibly of ...

French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers didn't look at all like the others. Protein fingerprint and DNA analysis revealed them to be not local cows or ...

These are among the questions raised in “The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World,” the visually ... missing about half its pages, consisting of only 23—though with 16 historiated ...

12th century French monks used animal skins to bind and cover their books. One group of books covers ... The find highlights the extent of medieval trade.

So last week, a group of researchers who were studying a set of medieval books published their findings. They had been looking into the material used to make the books' covers. MARY LOUISE KELLY ...