The Codex Gigas (“Giant Book” in Latin) is believed to have been created in the13th century in the Benedictine monastery of ...

The Codex of Türi, a 15th-century Latin-German dictionary, has been studied from every angle. Its oak covers, long overlooked, have revealed surprising information through dendrochronology and ...

The Greek astronomer Hipparchus is often called the "father of astronomy." He's credited with discovering the Earth's precession (how it wobbles on its axis) and calculating the motions of the Sun and ...

The document consisted of the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, which is a collection of Syriac texts Multispectral imaging revealed the manuscript was written over The style of writing in the folios is ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. It's an approximately 600-year-old mystery that continues to stump scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists: a roughly 240-page ...

A rare 14th-century Hebrew codex in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will be conserved after a presentation in the forthcoming edition of the TEFAF New York fair (5-10 May).

Four years after a priceless 12th-century travel guide, the Codex Calixtinus, was stolen from a Spanish cathedral, an electrician who worked there, and two members of his family, went on trial for ...

Medieval Institute Publications has many exciting projects releasing this year, and a few highlights from those titles are collected in this Spring Preview. Each of these titles presents an ...