A shopper got a surprise when he picked up a 700-year-old script for $75, per the Maine Monitor. Academic Lisa Fagin Davis confirmed the piece was genuine, and could be worth up to $10,000. Will ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A bargain hunter who went to an estate sale in Maine to find a KitchenAid mixer, a bookshelf or vintage clothing walked away with a 700-year-old treasure. Instead of a kitchen ...

Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the how the creation of early English books, from their hand-written language to the bindings ...

The medieval round has inspired many compositions including The Mouse Organ Song in the 70s TV show.

Lisa Fagin Davis was starting her medieval-studies Ph.D. at Yale in 1989 when she got a part-time job at the university’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Her boss was the curator of early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Beauvais Missal was said to be genuine by professors Megan Cook and Lisa Fagin Davis.Megan Cook A shopper got a surprise when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. William Noel: 'It was an extraordinary adventure to read the thoughts of a guy who lived over 2,000 years ago. In the field of old ...

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A page from a 15th-century medieval manuscript turns out to contain hidden text that is only visible under UV light. The discovery is due to the efforts of a team of undergraduate students at ...

LONDON — It’s around the year 1480, and a wandering English bard walks into a bar. What does he say to the crowd of drunken peasants gathered inside? A series of irreverent jokes about incontinence, ...