A lost medieval manuscript containing one of the earliest English poems, Caedmon's Hymn, has been rediscovered in a Roman ...

A hidden medieval manuscript in Rome brings Cædmon’s ancient hymn back into view, reshaping the story of early English poetry ...

A quiet moment inside a digital archive search has led to something that experts are calling a major literary breakthrough.

Researchers in Ireland have unearthed what is believed to be the oldest surviving English poem, discovered within the pages ...

Old-fashioned sleuthing and modern technology have led to the discovery of a manuscript containing a poem written by a farm ...

Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries examines the how the creation of early English books, from their hand-written language to the bindings ...

Two years ago, MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page through the Pearl-Manuscript, a singular bound ...

The margins of a medieval manuscript from a convent in Naples, Italy, are decorated with doodles of what are apparently devils, a farm animal and a person that were likely drawn by children, a new ...

A medieval notebook believed to have belonged to a local merchant surfaced unscathed, miraculously, ...

A shopper got a surprise when he picked up a 700-year-old script for $75, per the Maine Monitor. Academic Lisa Fagin Davis confirmed the piece was genuine, and could be worth up to $10,000. Will ...