New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

National Museum of Ireland's St Gallen exhibition highlights historical links between Irish missionary and Switzerland ...

Created around 1458, the manuscript is one of only seven surviving ... the high level of craftsmanship associated with the late Middle Ages. “The Black Book of Hours serves as a tangible connect ...

The “Romance” of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated manuscript on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the Middle Ages as it was translated into thirty languages. The original ...

Many of these illuminated texts can be found at the ... German scholar who researches the oaths of Jews in the late Middle Ages, studied in Israel for four years before returning to his homeland ...

The church actually sponsored some of the most beautiful and radical art that emerged in the Middle Ages. A lot of these monasteries had artist studios where monks made illuminated manuscripts.

While bestiaries were originally used by religious institutions, and particularly to educate monks in monasteries, people of wealth and influence would sometimes commission these opulent manuscripts .

Sandra Hindman from mediaeval and renaissance book specialist Les Enluminures talks about two exquisite manuscripts from the 15th and 16th ... cultural shift from the anonymous craftsman of the Middle ...

Legends, stories, and images turned it into a symbol of the Middle Ages that would transcend time ... on the move around the continent. Illuminated bestiaries, or books of beasts, became ...

This exhibition explores the Book of the Marvels of the World, an illuminated manuscript made in the 1460s that weaves together tales of places both near and far. Told from the perspective of a ...