Medieval manuscript: Did you mean...?

This 13th Century CE Arabic manuscript is the earliest manuscript from the Abbasid era (750-1258 CE). The Abbasids initiated a cascade of translation activities to preserve and further aggrandize western and eastern knowledge. Part of the...

Early medieval Icelandic government, or Viking Iceland, has been termed an incipient form of democracy or democratic parliamentarism, however, the system was actually nothing like its European counterparts, be they medieval or contemporary...

The Codex Runicus (AM 28 8vo), a manuscript from c. 1300 CE, contains one of the oldest texts of the Scanian Law (Skånske lov), here written exclusively in the Medieval Futhork runic script. It resides at the University of Copenhagen in...

The medieval toilet or latrine, then called a privy or garderobe, was a primitive affair, but in a castle, one might find a little more comfort and certainly a great deal more design effort than had been invested elsewhere. Practicality...

A manuscript of the Beowulf. 11th century CE. (British Library, London)

This is a 14th century CE manuscript in Armenian on the discoveries made by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The text of this document was first translated from Greek into Armenia in the 6th century CE. (Mesrop Mashtots Institute...

Qur'an Manuscript, ink, gold, and lapis on paper, with leather binding, India, Kashmir, late 18th–early 19th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Illustrated Buddhist manuscript cover narrating tales of Jataka. It was created in the late 11th century CE in Bihar, India. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.)

This is a parchment fragment from an Armenian manuscript created in the 10th century CE. (Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan, Armenia)

Illuminated manuscripts are, as their name suggests, hand-made books illumined by gold and silver ink. They were produced in Western Europe between c. 500 and c. 1600 CE and their subject matter is usually Christian scripture, practice, and...