Armchair cryptographers, rejoice: A Spanish publisher plans to release replicas of the Voynich Manuscript, a book that no one knows how to read. Discovered by an antique bookseller in 1912 by the name ...

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 ...

Image courtesy of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University/Wikimedia Commons For more than a century, scholars and experts have puzzled over the mysterious manuscript known today as ...

From ancient Qurans to archival records, rare manuscripts are finding new life in restoration labs, protected for future ...

We’ve been able to decipher ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs, Cuneiform, and Old Persian, but not Voynichese. Voynichese is the unknown, hand-written language that dominates the Voynich ...

New research is helping to demystify the Voynich Manuscript, long hailed as “the most mysterious manuscript in the world.” While the puzzle remains uncracked, some clever scientific sleuthing ...

The Baldy Center supports book manuscript workshops as part of its mission to advance interdisciplinary research on law, legal institutions, and social policy. The workshops seek to help UB faculty ...

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A miniature, unpublished manuscript written by English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë at age 13 will be offered for sale for US$1.25 million later this month at the New York Antiquarian Book Fair.

Matthew Paris’s Book of St. Albans, one of the most finely illustrated medieval manuscripts, has been digitized by the Library of Trinity College Dublin for the first time. The 13th-century ...