Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), archivists have finally been able to peer inside the obscured texts—without ever ...

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

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

This most recently discovered manuscript ... manuscript given researchers an invaluable opportunity to study medieval manuscript craftsmanship and the evolution of the Arthurian legend, but ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

The researchers found that 68 percent-799 out of about ... with only seven percent of medieval manuscripts and 38 percent of works existing today. England is also an island, but during the ...

At first glance, the 16th-century register found ... the court in medieval England. Arthurian romances, too, were historically aimed at noblewomen. Due to the fragility of the manuscript ...

It’s not a large exhibition, but it’s a versatile one, covering medieval bookmaking technology and science, the social lives ...

The extensive use of these skins does not appear to follow a hierarchical criterion: manuscripts of varying content and value ... they of the networks that brought them from distant lands? Medieval ...

To begin their study, the team relied on a common section found in most medieval manuscripts called a colophon. Ostensibly a publisher’s biography, scribes often included colophons at the end of ...

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins ... Not so, the new research found. Upon scrutiny, the authors of the paper, published in Royal Society Open Science ...