Tucked safely away in a climate-controlled space in Calvin College’s Meeter Center is a medieval devotional manuscript the college has owned since 1912. It recently became an object of deeper interest ...

As John O. Hunwick gingerly leafs through the magnificent folios of a collection of 600-year-old manuscripts, tiny flakes of ancient parchment crumble away, and a portion of West Africa’s literate ...

It was the kind of day of which every scholar dreams. Professor John Hunwick was in Timbuktu, and a young man who knew of his interest in African history invited him to see the family library. Leading ...

Jeff Himler Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 7:01 a.m. | Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022 7:01 a.m. Some dragons popped up in the latest summer course led by history instructor William Campbell and two colleagues at ...

A rare Spanish manuscript about the history of the Mariana Islands will be transcribed, translated and digitized and will be available to the public, University of Guam President Thomas Krise said.

Librarian Khader Salameh with a gilded copy of the Koran from the 16th century - Copyright AFP AHMAD GHARABLI Librarian Khader Salameh with a gilded copy of the Koran ...

When editors from Random House Children’s Books visited the Dr. Seuss collection at UC San Diego’s main library in May, they were looking for something special: a work that could tie in with America’s ...