As a self-publisher, the words written on the pages of the book matter more than anything else. But there’s the “wow factor” of the cover design that draws people in. With that being said, make sure ...

The Clairvaux Abbey in Champagne, France, holds nearly 1,500 medieval books written by scribes of the Cistercian Catholic ...

For a long time, the exact material that was used to make these manuscript covers, called chemises, has remained unclear. Now, scientists subjected over a dozen of these book covers to diverse ...