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Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.
Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...
A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur ...
Now, scientists have uncovered lost medieval tales of both King Arthur and Merlin the Magician, hidden inside another book. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been able to virtually ...
One winter morning I visit the rare-book room at Bristol ... Did its leader provide grist for the King Arthur legend? Jooney Woodward The seven pages come from a series of French stories known ...
It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the tale of Merlin and the early heroic years of King Arthur's court ... repurposed as a book cover by Elizabethans to ...