Fragments of a lost ancient Roman law text have been rediscovered in the scrap paper used to bind other books. The Codex Gregorianus, or Gregorian Code, was compiled by an otherwise unknown man named ...

Oftentimes, we are preoccupied with the contents of a book rather than the book itself. The phrase, “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is preached as a metaphorical reminder not to be quick to judge ...

Graphic Arts now holds a 2012 Teaching Set of Historical Bookbinding Models, thanks to Iowa Book Works, a small enterprise founded by Joyce Miller and Gary Frost that ...

A recently analyzed medieval codex covered in furry sealskin may be the oldest surviving book from Norway. The small Christian songbook was likely made around A.D. 1200 and passed down through several ...

A British-based academic has uncovered a fragment of the world's oldest Bible hiding underneath the binding of an 18th-century book. Nikolas Sarris spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex ...

The entirety of Leonardo da Vinci’s 1,119-page Atlantic Codex is going on public display for the first time, in a series of 24 exhibits spanning six years. The first exhibit of 45 drawings, ...

The world’s oldest bible – dating back to the 4th century AD – is to go on display at the British Museum. The Codex Sinaiticus, which is handwritten in Greek, will be part of an exhibition called ...