A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes ...

The Dunhuang manuscripts are housed in four major institutions: the National Library of China, the British Library, the National Library in France, and the Institute of Oriental Studies in St ...

Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound volume from the 1300s containing the earliest versions of the masterly medieval poem "Pearl ...

The night when Frankenstein was born. Drawing on British Library manuscripts and archives, the one hour documentary will bring together a stellar cast of Gothic, horror, science-fiction writers ...

World-famous portraits and rare manuscripts from literary legends including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the Bronte ...

"These are Celtic and English legends, which had circulated orally across the British ... to investigate manuscripts without damaging them (Credit: Cambridge University Library) The library ...

An MIT professor discovered that the Pearl Manuscript from the 1300s has more to it than just four unconnected medieval poems. Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page ...

Published in PLOS ONE, the research employs computational tools to analyze nearly 1,000 manuscripts from the British Library, ...