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Researchers Discovered a Rare 13th-Century Manuscript. It Was Hiding in Plain Sight All Along.
Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...
Artnet6d
Apollo 17 'The Iconic Blue Marble': Human's First Photograph of a Fully Illuminated Earth, December
Widely acknowledged as one of the most widely distributed photographic images in existence, the "Blue Marble" was ...
The New Criterion8d
Exhibition note
Appreciation for Cimabue by later generations has been further compromised both by the paltry number of surviving works by ...
Independent Catholic News11d
Gospel in Art: Monday of Holy Week
In today's Gospel, Mary of Bethany responds with heartfelt thanksgiving after Jesus restores her brother Lazarus to life. Her response is as extravagant as the gift she has received! She anoints Jesus ...
Nature17d
The Distribution of Light in an Image formed in the Cat's Eye
FLAMANT 1 has estimated the distribution of light in the image formed in the human eye of a brightly illuminated slit. By the kindness of Prof. Arnulf and Mlle. Flamant of the Institut d'Optique ...
Medieval scroll found in shoebox goes on display
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 ...
ThePrint24d
Parliamentary panel for creating AI-based platform for conversion of manuscript images into text
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) A parliamentary panel has recommended developing an advanced knowledge extraction framework which should include creating an AI-assisted platform to convert manuscript images ...
The Washington Post27d
There’s a reason this celebrated librarian’s life was not an open book
Her legacy is the work she performed for J.P. Morgan and his son Jack Morgan, searching out and acquiring rare and priceless books, manuscripts, prints, drawings and music. As founding director of ...
University of Cambridge27d
Weasel testicles, stargazing and royal remedies: medieval medicine examined in Curious Cures exhibition
One of the most beautiful manuscripts on display belonged to Elizabeth of York, Queen of England, wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. This richly illuminated book contains a copy of the Régime ...
The Daily Republic27d
DWU’s Stark Lecture to enlighten attendees on The Saint John’s Bible
In 2010 he transitioned to full-time support for The Saint John’s Bible, the first completely handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in more than 500 years ...
Daily Mail28d
The weirdest medieval cures you could try at home... if you dare: Manuscripts reveal bizarre methods 15th century doctors used to 'cure' common illnesses
One of the most beautiful manuscripts on display belonged to Elizabeth of York, Queen of England, wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII. This richly illuminated book contains a copy of the ...
Daily Mail29d
Lost manuscript telling the story of King Arthur and Merlin the Magician is read for the first time in 700 YEARS - after centuries hidden inside another book
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been able to virtually unroll the 700-year-old manuscript to 'unlock ... with such brightness that it illuminated the whole room.' ' ...