Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...

P art of a 13th century manuscript containing rare stories about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge University Library. The remarkable text had been repurposed as binding for a ...

A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

Researcher Unlocks Secrets From Only Surviving King Arthur’s Pearl Manuscript, Hidden Inside an Old Book for Centuries For ...

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A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur ...

D modeling, or industrial scanning techniques, enabled researchers to study the manuscript's pattern of creases and folds in ...

The text is written in Old French, the language of the court and aristocracy ... such as threads used in the binding. By digitally removing the book and leaving just the thread, the model provides a ...

Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

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 Arthurian ...

The inner front cover of the manuscript. Credit: Cambridge University Library An 800-year-old manuscript of a lost story about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered inside the binding of a ...