“Antwerp seemed, in the 16th century, to be the center of the Western world...”

“In describing printed books, a cataloger looks for subjects or areas of study where...”

“One of the most common uses of manuscripts over the centuries is to train children in reading and writing...”

“Dr. Arthur Voobus was many things—a scholar, pastor, teacher, and refugee in exile...”

“Singing is one of those amazing things...”

“Grief, loss, and death itself were very much part of...”

“A choir of cowled monks around a shrouded casket, a body being laid into a coffin, a smiling skeletal figure, an old man sitting on a dung heap...”

“In the mid-15th century, the invention of the printing press made books relatively easier to produce and...”

“In 1492, the abbot of a Benedictine monastery in Sponheim, Germany, wrote a small paean to scribes and the act of writing...”

“HMML’s Art & Photographs collection is full of fragments of the 15th and 16th century...”

“Manuscripts are known for their idiosyncratic nature...”

“Much of human history remains for us today only in the form of smaller remnants or fragments...”

“Jacques Hnizdovsky had arrived in the city the year before as a...”

“A book you would love to read is lost, altered, destroyed, buried, hidden, left unpublished, unwritten, banned.”

“The advent of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century led to...”

“In summer of 1917, the New York-based artist Rockwell Kent made a bold decision.”

“This year, HMML received a large donation of Russian icons from the collection of Edmund Gronkiewicz...”

“Rome has long been a destination for travelers from around the world.”

“Herbals—books describing the medicinal use of plants—have been important scientific sources for...”

“This year marks twenty years since the first significant efforts were made to use multispectral imaging (MSI) to reveal hidden...”