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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), ...
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 Arthurian ...
Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...
A piece of parchment wrapped around a 16th century volume of property records has turned out to be a treasure beyond ...
Part of a 13th century manuscript containing rare stories about Merlin and King Arthur has been discovered at Cambridge ...
“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 ...
What’s more, it has been determined to be part of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin, part of the Vulgate Cycle, a medieval narrative on the lives of King Arthur and Merlin. Though popular in its time ...
SUMMERS: She's reading a passage from "Suite Vulgate Du Merlin." King Arthur, Merlin - yeah, these are those stories. SHAPIRO: Tales of knights on quests and, of course, that famous round table.
Historians recently unveiled a rare 13th-century document depicting the tales of King Arthur and Merlin – and its survival is considered a miracle. The discovery was announced by the University ...
University of Cambridge 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.