A manuscript from Isfahan, Iran, was written by a soothsayer a...  ...56 illustrations that accompany it were from the medieval era, especially one that shows a demon riding an...  ...l mixes, and plenty of horns. Read more about the manuscript

Embed from Getty ImagesThe Codex Gigas is the bi...  ...d from Getty ImagesThe Codex Gigas is the biggest medieval manuscript in the world. This Bible is 36 inches tall and we...

We love medieval doodles, from meticulously illuminated manuscripts to ink paw prints, but especially the humorous im...

ba ba baaa ba da da bee be bop bop da doot doo...  ...doot doo pic.twitter.com/KWIdjLiIi5— weird medieval guys (@WeirdMedieval) October 20, 2023 If you fo...  ...er 20, 2023 If you follow the Twitter feed Weird Medieval Guys, it might be because we profiled them last y...  ...elightful collection of odd...

<p>It was when Dr. James Wade was do...  ...something rather extraordinary. In a 15th century manuscript , he read what seemed to be notes and details for...  ...uld think that minstrels, the entertainers of the Medieval Age, generally performed impromptu or extempore,...  ...performed impromptu or extempo...

You may have never heard of the multiocular O. It...  ...at only appears in literature once, in a Cyrillic manuscript of Psalms dated to around 1429, which was, of cou...  ...has seven eyes, while the original from the 1429 manuscript has ten. The Unicode Consortium was notified of t...  ...ges have many.ANYWAY,...

A new project at Cambridge University, funded by W...  ...nded by Wellcome, seeks to digitize more than 180 medieval manuscripts containing the state of medicine of the time. The...  ...ntaining the state of medicine of the time. These manuscripts go back a thousand years, but most are from the 1...  ...o be tra...

I posted a free-floating meme for a laugh and ende...  ...learning something new. This illustration from a medieval manuscript isn't a tucking-in bird, it's a caladrius. The ca...  ...was usually white, and often lived with kings. A medieval healer would be well-equipped to own, or at least...  ...earn something...

Unless you are celebrating INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK...  ...nd his immediate successors), monks began copying manuscripts using large block letters at the beginnings of pa...  ...that they were proper Roman writings, not debased medieval writing systems.But The Generalist Papers is just...

<p><span style="background-c...  ...r-old passage from the legend of King Arthur. The manuscript , called</span><a href="https://gizm...  ...lyzed the handwriting and linguistic style of the manuscript . The passage is dated to between 1250 and 1275, a...  ...d retold in different way...