The Sarajevo Haggadah: A Remarkable Survival Story The Sarajevo Haggadah, believed to have originated in 14th-century Spain, is a breathtaking example of Jewish manuscript illumination.

In my Latin paleography class, we’ve not just been learning how to read medieval manuscripts, but how to make them. We’ve written in Carolingian minuscule and Gothic Textura, traced letterforms over ...

‘It belongs with the books of Kells and Durrow.’ Illuminated manuscripts back in Ireland for the first time in more than 1,000 years ...

Alma bags came bearing the gilded 3D embellishments usually found on rare book covers. In English, the technique is dubbed “manuscript illumination.” ...

The path for the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts' return home has been illuminated by the torchbearers of our shared civilization.

The oldest illuminated manuscripts, of which there are two, are of the fourth century, the Virgil of the Vatican and the Dioscorides of Vienna.

“Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts,” a new exhibition at Yale’s Beinecke Library, celebrates Islamic civilization’s artistic, religious, and scholarly traditions.

Alex Geldzahler, Contributing Photographer The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library unveiled its latest temporary exhibition, “Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts,” on Feb. 24.

Menelik II used the traditional Christian art of manuscript illumination in Ethiopia to create visual images that symbolically reinforced his authority as both a Christian and an African sovereign.

The History Museum of Mobile is excited to announce the next major exhibition, Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, 13th – 18th Centuries.