Book lovers in Dublin and beyond will be excited about the return of the second-hand books sa Introduced in 1990 but not held since February 2020 – just before the Covid pandemic – the book sale goes ...

YEARS ago, a new app hit the scene that changed many Irish people’s lives. Since the foundation of Google Maps, it has helped ...

There are, as every school boy knows, towns called Kells in Counties ... in early manuscripts. He was invited to become a member (and subsequently leader) of a research group exploring art historical ...

The FBI approved a book manuscript in 2023 from its lead investigator in the Benghazi terror attack probe that confirms frontline agents and prosecutors believed ...

Africa has a long and vibrant history of illuminated manuscripts, reflecting the continent's rich cultural tapestry and artistic heritage. These manuscripts, typically religious texts embellished ...

A 70-metre art display which has been described as a ‘spectacle’ has taken over a historic Greater Manchester building. For two nights, Salford Civic Centre, which was formerly Swinton ...

COULD one of Europe’s most important medieval manuscripts originate from Easter Ross? The Book of Kells, contains the four gospels of the New Testament, is traditionally thought to have been written ...

So said the great Sufi master Ibn Aṭā Allāh al-Iskandarī (1250-1309) in Kitab al-Hikam (The Book of Wisdom), acknowledged as an essential and classic treatise on the science of enlightenment.

AN EVENT exploring the origins of the “most important surviving manuscript of medieval Europe” which is now believed to have come from the Highlands has been announced for Edinburgh. The Book of Kells ...

Discovered by a collector who purchased an incomplete set of 18th-century Laws of New York at a library sale, the plain book ... the actual handwritten manuscript of the Declaration of ...

Some of the most beautiful objects to survive from the mediæval world in the west are the sumptuous illuminated manuscripts, often made by monks ... not only for great statement pieces, like the Book ...

That means religious texts, self-help guides, political tools, and other reference texts are out—the Bible and Mao Tse Tung's Little Red Book would both be in the Top 25. And we're leaving out ...