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

“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...”

“I’m not a musicologist, but I am an avid fan of music from all times...”

“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...”

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

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

“A book you would love to read is lost, altered, destroyed, buried, hidden, left unpublished, unwritten, banned.”

“A group of women cluster together, several clutching the handles of lidded pots...”

“Between 1585 to 1600 Maarten de Vos designed 141 engravings depicting hermits.”

“The great Age of Sail conjures in our minds vast stretches of ocean populated by...”

“In the mid-19th century, a group of French artists began to reevaluate the art of...”

“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...”

“HMML is pleased to announce the acquisition of “William Shakespeare’s Second Folio” to its...”