For the first time, the full US Constitution is about to go on display at the National Archives in DC. The exhibition, part of the United States’ 250-anniversary celebration, features the Constitution (all five pages), Bill of Rights, and 17 amendments. finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-new…

For the first time in 150 years, a Mont Saint-Michel manuscript has reappeared. Spotted in an auction catalog in 2018, the medieval manuscript is now on show at the Scriptorial Museum in Avranches, official repository of Mont Saint-Michel manuscripts. finestresullarte.info/en/travel/sear…

Go between the covers of Atelier Devauchelle, the largest bookbinder in Paris devoted just to artisanal work. The value of the books they repair? They don’t know. “It’s better that way.” But think 1839 first edition of Stendhal’s “La Chartreuse de Parme.” nytimes.com/card/2025/06/2…

Mark your calendar: A copy of the Declaration of Independence in Thomas Jefferson's hand will go on show July 1-3, 2026, at the New York Library. The rare manuscript includes not only the official text but — underscored — the changes and omissions. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see…

In a medieval monastery, scribes scraped and reused a parchment, overwriting a foundational work of mathematician Archimedes. Ultraviolet and X-ray imaging later recovered the ancient text. What couldn’t be recovered were centuries of potential advances. dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/we-los…

Since WWII, a trove of books and manuscripts has been missing from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest. Now a 16th-century Venetian miniature has been returned from New York. And more books bearing the telltale library stamp are turning up. nytimes.com/2025/09/08/art…

Marginalized no more: Decorative borders take center stage in “Nature of Gothic,” featuring artists and styles from the late medieval period to the Arts and Crafts movement. See what’s on show at London’s Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. theconversation.com/new-exhibition…

Middle (ages) of the road: How much did people in the Middle Ages travel? Why did they hit the road? Where did they go? How did they get there? A Getty exhibition explores the questions — and answers — in #medieval #manuscripts. medievalists.net/2025/08/going-…

The Lisbon Mahzor was produced shortly before Portuguese Jews were forced to convert or be expelled in 1496. Sometime later, it was split into three parts. The first went to the National Library of Israel in 1957. The rest was lost — until now. jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/two-thirds-of-…

Sixteen lines of text cover each of its 300 octagonal pages, some bordered in gold. Grab your specs: the text is so tiny it’s called “ghubar” — dust — for the book itself is just an inch and a half tall. No wonder it spent years of its life in a dollhouse. finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-new…

The books had a familiar stamp. They had surfaced in a preservation sweep at the UVA School of Medicine’s Claude Moore Library. But the rare titles were presumed lost in an 1895 fire. How had they survived? Rescued from the flames? Or just … checked out? cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-ra…

Players first sat down for a Game of Authors in 1861. Since then the deck has seen a few changes. Some of the early featured authors are still well known. Others, not so much. For a look at drops and adds, check out a new exhibition at Rare Book School. finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-new…

Is the Book of Kells really the Book of Picts? A scholar argues its artistry mirrors Pictish sculpture more than works from Iona, long credited as the origin of the iconic book. But with no record, and the way monks moved around, it’s hard to say for sure. theguardian.com/books/2025/sep…

ICYMI: The Morgan Library & Museum has received a gift of 200-plus works by Herman Melville. An excellent first American edition of “Moby-Dick,” yes. Rarer: “John Marr and Other Sailors” and “Timoleon,” each originally printed in editions of 25. finebooksmagazine.com/news/major-col…

Artist Tim Youd live-types famous works of literature. On the kind of typewriter the author used. But when he set out to type “Dracula,” he found no record of Bram Stoker’s typewriter. Archives to the rescue, with an ingenious way to reveal the answer. news.emory.edu/features/2025/…

How has the book trade since Bill Reese wrote his landmark essays 25 years ago? In the Autumn issue of “The Book Collector,”bookseller Angus O’Neill calls out the shift away from completists, the missing generation of collectors, and the AI skew. ilab.org/article/a-larg…

The late Cormac McCarthy “built his life on books.” So what was in the author’s personal library? Books, rooms of them, maybe 20,000 volumes, many annotated, on quantum physics, whale biology, violins, men’s suits... And a dead bat. Take the tour. smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/t…

Looking for some weekend reading? Check out the latest Digest for stories about the Douglass-Lincoln debate, the return of the Pearl Harbor logbook, how Bryant and Jordan bested Mantle, and more. p0.vresp.com/3t1O4k

Indiana University of Pennsylvania houses 20,000 volumes of rare books and incunabula. One is the Spanish Illuminated Manuscript from the court of Philip IV. What makes it special? Join us for Manuscript Monday, 8 p.m. ET October 6, and be illuminated. manuscript.org/event/manuscri…

When explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance sank off Antarctica, blame fell on a collision with a sheet of ice. But was the problem really the ice? A letter from Shackleton to his wife points instead to … the ship. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/exp…