medieval manuscripts
A newly identified document gives insight into the mind of Maimonides
By David I. Klein — May 19, 2023
(RNS) — The 900-year-old scrap of paper was among the hundreds of thousands of fragments collected from the Cairo Genizah, a trove of Jewish writings held in a Cairo synagogue that collectively chronicles nearly two millennia of Jewish life in Egypt.
Rare medieval Easter cipher is up for grabs this Holy Week
By Kathryn Post — April 5, 2023
(RNS) — When decoded, the 15th-century cipher helped calculate the date for Easter.
Bargain hunter scores 700-year-old medieval times document
By David Sharp — September 23, 2022
(RNS) — Academics confirmed the parchment was from The Beauvais Missal, used in the Beauvais Cathedral in France, and dated to the late 13th century.
My real-life Da Vinci Code moment
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 9, 2018
(RNS) — Three years ago I discovered a strange diagram written into an ancient monastic book. (Commentary)
No dice required: A medieval prayer wheel surfaces, but how it was used is anyone’s guess
By David Van Biema — April 30, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) If much of life in the High Middle Ages seems foreign to us, the wheel -- along with four others like it that have survived to the present -- is a real riddle.
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