“It was first thought to be a 14th-century story about Sir Gawain but further examination revealed it to be part of the Old French Vulgate Merlin sequel, a different and extremely significant ...
Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...
For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.
A fragment of manuscript dating from the 13th century has been identified a text from the Arthurian legend. A rare discovery ...
A lost 800-year-old Merlin and King Arthur manuscript was found in the 16th-century book and studied using advanced imaging ...
Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...
At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property ...
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 ...
The stories are part of a French sequel to Arthurian legend, and its binding was repurposed in the 16th century ...
The manuscript, first discovered at Cambridge University Library in 2019, has now been identified as part of the Suite ...
In medieval novels, Merlin the Magician was far stranger than he appears in modern pop culture. Archivists have discovered ...