What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ...

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

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going on display for the very first time. The 15th-century Arma Christi was found in a shoebox filled with leaflets ...

Full of bizarre marginal illustrations, including a giant skate fish and rabbits hunting on the backs of houndsThis fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript is the most important of its kind to ...

The manuscript is part of the Suite Vulgate du ... gold and precious stones which glittered with such brightness that it illuminated the whole room." The fragile document even contains small ...

The Arma Christi is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre in York A rare medieval illuminated manuscript uncovered in the archive of a York convent is going ...