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"Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages." -- Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre DameConstruction of the Notre Dame de Paris began between 24 March and 25 April, 1163. Notre Dame burned a month ago today. Its history, like that of...

photo by Scott BeadlesAn ancient piece from the Rare Books Department has been translated and published by BYU professor Lincoln Blumell.Read all about it in today’s BYU News:“BYU professor works with University of Utah library to translate 1700 year-old obituary”“I’ve looked at hundreds of ancient...

Preghiera alla Vergine… Modena: Il Bulino edizioni d’arte, 2007Facsimile. This illuminated manuscript belonged a young woman of the Veronese aristocracy. Produced on vellum in the second half of the thirteenth century, it is illustrated throughout with miniatures and consists of forty-two folios, or eighty-four pages. The...