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

Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...

Books are fragile things. That is why old books are so precious to us—they've survived the ravages of time. Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are, those like the Archimedes ...

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 ...

Martin Kauffman, head of early and rare collections at the Bodleian, said it was an early example of the New Testament translated into French for laypeople A newly discovered royal manuscript will ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) literature professor Arthur Bahr experienced one of the most memorable moments of his academic career. At the British Library, he had the privilege of ...

A fascinating exploration of one of the most significant moments in Gothic history: the night when Mary Shelley, Lord Byron and their cohorts gathered together in Lake Geneva to tell ghost stories.