The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...

"Book bricks" is the colloquial term restorers use for ancient books that have hardened into solid blocks. Some books are so ...

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 ...

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Three ambitious new books - by Tim Jackson, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, and Diane Coyle - examine the failures of liberal ...

In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...

A rare 13th-century manuscript fragment containing medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur has been 'virtually unrolled' ...

A lost 800-year-old Merlin and King Arthur manuscript was found in the 16th-century book and studied using advanced imaging ...

A Mrs Casters meticulously jotted down 160 recipes in the 229-year-old book as well as the details of her extensive list of suppliers.