For instance, a chapter focuses on an 11th century Arabic manuscript, which is a translation of the lost mathematical works attributed to Apollonius. In the meantime, the essay dwells on four ...

The first manuscript, titled Explanation of Al-Muntakhab Al-Husami, focuses on the principles of jurisprudence. Authored by Muhammad Yaqoub Al-Banani, this 11th-century manuscript is written in Naskh ...

The lost manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the country was conquered by the Normans during the 11th century. A total of 21 fragments of the manuscript were ...

The modern history of Western Europe is defined by opposition. Europe is presented as a beacon of civilisation facing down ...

Scholars found two lost books by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as the Great Geometer. The works were found in an Arabic manuscript preserved at the Libraries of Leiden ...

KILGALLEN: Oh, of the Indies, probably. I don’t know, French. When I first started painting seriously, I used to look at a lot of typography from the sixteenth century, fifteenth century. I was ...

A rare Byzantine manuscript discovered in a Greek monastery has unveiled hidden historical gems, offering new insights into the turbulent reign of a 14th-century emperor and the daily life of the era.

Many manuscripts drew on these traditions ... A romanticized engraving of the 11th-century scholar Avicenna, who provided a strong theoretical framework for medicine. Photograph by Bridgeman ...

The early 12th-century manuscript's graceful, powerfully drawn figures and saturated colors mark the arrival of the Romanesque style of painting in England. The windows from Canterbury, made toward ...