From ancient Qurans to archival records, rare manuscripts are finding new life in restoration labs, protected for future ...
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A Cat Left Paw Prints on the Pages of This Medieval Manuscript When the Ink Was Drying 500 Years Ago
An exhibition called "Paws on Parchment" tracks how cats were depicted in the Middle Ages through texts and artworks from ...
Other rare items, available for purchase in February, include illustrations, theater programs, telegrams and newspapers ...
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Amitav Ghosh Is Writing A Book That Will Remain 'Unread' For 100 Years: All You Need To Know
Amitav Ghosh joins Norway’s Future Library, sealing his next manuscript until 2114. A forest-grown project where literature ...
The Voynich manuscript is a 23.5 x 16.2cm book of about 240 pages, written in an unknown script sometime in the 1400s. The book contains strange scientific and botanical drawings in various shades of ...
It was purchased at London's Forum Auctions with funding from the Friends of the Nations' Libraries by Dorset History Centre ...
Gibson Library is in a Grade II listed building nestled in Saffron Walden, Essex, and is also home to unique annotated copies ...
Both factions are in pursuit of a fragment of medieval embroidery which they believe holds the secret to discovering a ...
The Voynich manuscript—a mysterious medieval book that has defied translation for centuries—may have been created using a special code developed with the help of cards and dice, a new study suggests.
T.R. Aravindan’s lecture demonstration traced the composer’s rare kritis and the evolving raga identities.
The only extant autograph manuscript of William Walton’s 1931 work Belshazzar’s Feast is to be put on sale by rare books and manuscript specialists Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Cirencester. A public ...
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