A medieval scribe copied stories about a knight and a wizard into a manuscript around 750 years ago. The knight […] ...
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 ...
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...
A rare 13th-century manuscript fragment containing medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur has been 'virtually unrolled' ...
The fragment contains two key episodes, including the only surviving account about Merlin and the early years of Arthur's ...
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...
For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.
New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...
Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from the 1200s discovered and digitised in a ground-breaking three-year project at ...