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

However, in 2022, before Fontaine and his research team were able to draw any conclusions, the manuscript was sold at an auction for the low sum of €300 (£257). The auction catalogue attributed it to ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

What are some of the ways that heating the air and water in our buildings can be made greener? We consider innovative ...

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

Dr Muhammad Isa Waley, Lead Curator for Persian and Turkish Manuscripts at the British Library, said: ‘This is indeed an exciting discovery. We know now that these two folios, in a beautiful and ...

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

A medieval scribe copied stories about a knight and a wizard into a manuscript around 750 years ago. The knight […] ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been able to virtually unroll the 700-year-old manuscript to 'unlock ... in at Cambridge University Library. Each surviving copies of 'Suite ...

For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.

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 ...