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For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.
Historians from the University of Cambridge recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document that depicts the stories of King ...
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 ...
Part of a 13th century manuscript containing rare stories about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge ...
AI Unlocks 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Carbonized by Vesuvius The medieval legends of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, the knight Sir Lancelot, the magician Merlin, and the quest for the Holy ...
Less than 40 copies of the Arthurian story Suite Vulgate du Merlin are known to exist. One was just found, binding together ...
This most recently discovered manuscript, written between 1275 and 1315, was once part of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin, a sequel to the legend of King Arthur written in Old French. The story ...
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered new stories about him.
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
Now, scientists have uncovered lost medieval tales of both King Arthur and Merlin the Magician, hidden inside another book. Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been able to virtually ...
It is the only surviving fragment of a lost medieval manuscript telling the tale of Merlin and the early heroic years of King Arthur's court. In it, the magician becomes a blind harpist who later ...
An intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan deeds register for nearly 400 years. Researchers have finally been able to reveal it with cutting ...