A study of 16 Medieval manuscripts in Clairvaux Abbey in France found they were bound in a surprising material: sealskin.

Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

Over the centuries, works of medieval literature have become lost. Today, roughly 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works ...

Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...

A piece of parchment wrapped around a 16th century volume of property records has turned out to be a treasure beyond ...

P art of a 13th century manuscript containing rare stories about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge ...

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from Viking descendants, a new study has ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...