Once upon a time only dukes, popes, and princesses could hold a priceless artifact like The Isabella Breviary in their hands. Today, facsimiles allow you to leaf through them — well, at least virtually! So what are you waiting for?
Once upon a time only dukes, popes, and princesses could hold a priceless artifact like the Biblia Pauperum: Apocalypsis: The Weimar Manuscript in their hands. Today, facsimiles allow you to leaf through them — well, at least virtually! So what are you waiting for?
Once upon a time only dukes, popes, and princesses could hold a priceless artifact like the Les Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry in their hands. Today, facsimiles allow you to leaf through them — well, at least virtually! So what are you waiting for?
Once upon a time only dukes, popes, and princesses could hold a priceless artifact like Alfonso X The Wise’s Book of Chess, Dice and Board Games in their hands. Today, facsimiles allow you to leaf through them — well, at least virtually! So what are you waiting for?
Once upon a time only dukes, popes, and princesses could hold a priceless artifact like the Book of Hours of the Weaving Virgin in their hands. Today, facsimiles allow you to leaf through them — well, at least virtually! So what are you waiting for?
The Venetian explorer Marco Polo didn’t write his Travels alone: in 1298, he found himself imprisoned with a romance writer, Rustichello da Pisa. Their conversations gave birth to one of the most celebrated travel books in history.
Once upon a time only dukes, popes, and princesses could hold a priceless artifact like Aesop’s Fables in their hands. Today, facsimiles allow you to leaf through them — well, at least virtually! So what are you waiting for?
Once upon a time only dukes, popes, and princesses could hold a priceless artifact like the Oxford Bestiary in their hands. Today, facsimiles allow you to leaf through them — well, at least virtually! So what are you waiting for?
Once upon a time, there was a… snake with two heads? A Yale on a golden background? This week, I discovered that a masterpiece of the English Gothic can entertain my kids better than any videogame.
An art scholar recently called it the rock star of medieval manuscript illumination. The story of this manuscript is so thrilling we couldn’t resist asking ourselves some questions — we also imagined the manuscript’s answers.