A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur sequel series. University of Cambridge For centuries, the stories of King ...

The rather gruesome book binding practice was a common procedure in the 19th century, known as anthropodermic bibliopegy. Famous examples of anthropodermic bibliopegy include editions of Holbein ...

In the book, Framing Portraits, Binding Albums, editors Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain initiate a discourse towards this aspect of memory preservation. Family albums can not only be ...

But when researchers from the institute unfurled the volume’s binding in 2019, they were in for a surprise. Hidden within the binding was a segment of a 13th-century manuscript. What’s more ...

For centuries, the stories of King Arthur, Lancelot, Merlin, Guinevere and the world of Camelot have come to be known as Arthurian legend, or the matter of Britain. From Arthur’s birth to his ...

Now, a copy of these rare stories has been discovered — in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register. What are we learning about the past? Here are three of our most recent eye ...

Father Joseph Steiger, played by Stevens, was the parish priest at St. Joseph’s Church in Earling who permitted the ritual to be performed at a nearby Franciscan convent for privacy. According ...

The second book was discovered last year and, unlike the original, only has skin on the books binding and corners. Dan Clarke, heritage officer at Moyse's Hall Museum, said it would have been ...