New multispectral imaging at the British Library has helped us to read one of the earliest surviving illuminated Bibles.

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Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…

A medieval abbey in Hungary is battling a beetle infestation threatening its ancient book collection

This article explores the phenomenon of counterfeit copies of Martin Luther’s pamphlets within the Reformationsgeschichtliche Forschungsbibliothek (RFB) in Wittenberg. Following the rise of Luther,...

At a moment when Harvard is battling the Trump administration, a scholar who helped discover the charter said it was an “almost providential” find.

While text-based AI applications are well established, images present unique challenges: they are not inherently machine-readable, posing significant challenges for large-scale analysis.