First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...

The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

A medieval scribe copied stories about a knight and a wizard into a manuscript around 750 years ago. The knight […] ...

“It was first thought to be a 14th-century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old French Vulgate Merlin sequel, a different and extremely significant ...

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Researchers have discovered a manuscript of one of the oldest versions of the story of King Arthur. How did they find and decipher it?

with each one unique since they were individually handwritten by medieval scribes. This latest discovery has been identified as having been written between 1275 and 1315. The inner front cover of the ...

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This course gives an introduction to Old Norse script and its development from c. 1100 to 1550. Students will study manuscripts with various content and types of script. The course will also offer a ...