Since 1830 thousands of Old English inked glosses have been published from several manuscripts of Aldhelm's Prosa de Virginitate. A few omissions from this vast corpus are printed and discussed here: ...

SCITUATE − A mysterious, nearly forgotten booklet dating back to the early 19th century found in the archives of the Scituate Historical Society is drawing attention from scholars. The 78 pages of ...

Virginia Woolf wrote Mrs. Dalloway in purple ink and barely scratched out a word. The old English script is still strikingly clear on the ragged-edged vellum of a 1,000-year-old manuscript of Beowulf.

While quill and ink were the writing implements of choice in the Anglo-Saxon scriptorium, other colouring and non-colouring writing implements were in active use, too. The stylus, among them, was used ...

Chicago's Newberry Library has a manuscript from 17th century England in its collection called The Book of Magical Charms, which it put online to invite people to transcribe the Old English writing.

Beowulf still relevant in today's culture By Kaelin O'Connell [email protected] It's the classic story of a boy and his monster. The epic tale of Beowulf has lasted through hundreds of years of ...

Researchers have discovered secret scribbles and sketches that were likely scratched by an elite woman into a medieval manuscript more than 1,200 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Fragments of a hand-written medieval manuscript telling the story of Merlin the Magician from the legend of Camelot have been translated into English. The text tells of battles between King Arthur and ...