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 ...

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).

A recently analyzed medieval codex covered in furry sealskin may be the oldest surviving book from Norway. The small Christian songbook was likely made around A.D. 1200 and passed down through several ...

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 ...

In "Codex," Lev Grossman's second novel, a 25-year-old investment banker stumbles through two twisted narratives. One takes Edward Wozny back to the birth of the English novel, immersing him in the ...