#manuscript

Author: Nick Squires / Source: The Telegraph She was the original blue nun. Scientists studying the skull of a nun who lived nearly 1,000 years ago in a monastery in Germany have made an unusual discovery – fragments of a blue pigment lodged in her teeth. The pigment turned out to be

Author: Robby Berman / Source: Big Think It turns out medieval religious manuscripts were not exclusively the domain of male monks. Fleck of a rare gemstone pigment in fossilized teeth prove women also authored religious manuscripts. We’ll never see these exquisite books the same way again.

Source: Neatorama For having given birth to the modern English language, you would think that Old English – the now defunct language spoken in medieval Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers – would have a lot of surviving written records. But in case of original manuscripts of poetry in Old

Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Charles Darwin had ten children, and at least three of them were young artists during the time Darwin was writing his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. They saw dad’s project as a source of paper for their drawings and paintings! Of Darwin’s first

Author: Kristina Gaddy / Source: Atlas Obscura In the library of the Maryland Historical Society, Kara Mae Harris sits at a large table with fragile manuscript pages and her laptop. She taps away, entering recipe after recipe from centuries-old cookbooks, diaries, and handwritten pages into a