What it is: An illuminated manuscript of the four Christian gospels, made in the ninth century Where it is from: The island of Iona in Scotland's Inner Hebrides When it was made: About 1,200 years ...

Prof Philippa Hoskin first spotted the recipe, written in Latin on the edge of a 9th Century manuscript owned by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. "I said to some colleagues over lunch ...

As the Welsh kingdoms developed behind the Dyke, the Welsh language began to assume official status. Whereas previously Latin ...

Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval ... In the example above, a text in Syriac overlays a ninth-century translation of a page from a medical treatise by the ...

Herschel Hepler was browsing Google Images to practice his paleography — the study of historical writing systems — when he ...

has its roots in the ninth century and was codified" in this book. The Liber Regalis, or Royal Book, is a medieval manual which explains how coronations are staged. The manuscript, which is currently ...

And glosses in Welsh - that is, written notes in margins - have been found on ninth and 10th century medieval manuscript. The ninth century king Hywel Dda (Hywel the Good) was one of the more ...