The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

VistaPrint offers eight photo book sizes in square, portrait, and landscape formats, which range in size from 13 x 10cm (5.1 ...

From his mountainside studio in Nova Friburgo, Brazil, Guy Laramée creates otherworldly sculptures that mirror nearby peaks.

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.

The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival and Sherando High School’s art department have once again partnered to create a festival-themed coloring book.

Are you new to Smash Books? This guide explains them and shares smash book ideas so good you’ll want to glue something down ...