This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A bargain hunter who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Its lyrics - translated from Middle English - include "Summer has come in, loud sing cuckoo" and heralds in the warmer seasons ...

Medieval manuscript fragments discovered in a set of 16th-century books have revealed long-lost tales of Merlin, the Magician. Merlin is one of the key characters in the legend of King Arthur and ...

The medieval prayer book looks modern from the outside, with its sleek white leather cover added by a conservator for safekeeping. Open the pages, however, and peer into a bygone era. There, images of ...

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 ...

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Students in an art history elective offered this past spring at Rochester Institute of Technology had the unique opportunity to take part in a nationwide program sponsored by antique bookseller Les ...

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 ...

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 ...