A surprising number of medieval scribes were women
First, researchers turned to an existing catalogue of Benedictine colophons, reviewing all 23,774 entries for linguistic ...
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High-Tech Imaging Allows Researchers to Read Handwritten Medieval Arthurian Tales Hidden in the Binding of a Property Record
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
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A 700-year-old manuscript about King Arthur has been found revealing untold tales of the mythological character
A fragment of manuscript dating from the 13th century has been identified a text from the Arthurian legend. A rare discovery ...
Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book
Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...
There's One Surviving Copy of This Tale of King Arthur's Knights. A Researcher Just Unlocked Its Secrets.
Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” the poetry-filled book features plenty of additional aspects far beyond merely words on a page. Bahr has a new ...
Archivists Discover New Stories About King Arthur Hidden in Ancient Book Binding
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...
Lost manuscript telling the story of King Arthur and Merlin the Magician is read for the first time in 700 YEARS - after centuries hidden inside another book
A rare 13th-century manuscript fragment containing medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur has been 'virtually unrolled' ...
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800-Year-Old Lost Merlin and King Arthur Manuscript Found Hidden Inside 16th-C. Book
A lost 800-year-old Merlin and King Arthur manuscript was found in the 16th-century book and studied using advanced imaging ...