Merlin’s tales and King Arthur Richeor after 750 years, hiding in writing books

In 2019, scientists at the Cambridge University Library discovered a very rarely 750 -year -old text on King Arthur’s legends hiding in the sight of the horizon. Part of the fragile manuscript has been reused in linking the property record in the sixteenth century, making almost impossible to study the text in the Middle Ages without dismantling and destroying the envelope of the record. Almost impossible – but not completely.

A multidisciplinary team from scientists from the University of Cambridge used various advanced imaging techniques to create a virtual version of the link, allowing them to digitally reveal the rare text without having to damage it or property record. This pioneering approach also maintains archaeological pieces as an example of the practice of linking archiving in the sixteenth century, which is “a piece of history in itself”, Irène-Tehranchi, a French specialist in groups and academic communication at the Cambridge University library that participated in the project, explained at a university statement.

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In addition to common tools such as mirrors, magnets and publications, Fabry-Tehranchi and their colleagues used advanced photography techniques to photograph each side of folded fragment, making the text more readable, creating a very detailed 3D model for an technique to understand the structure of the fastening without separating it. Then hundreds of pictures were assembled together like the puzzle to create a digital copy of the cover, which Researchers can now reveal and study As if they were carrying the real thing.

“If this is done 30 years ago, shrapnel may have been cut, unveiled and settlement. But today, preserving it on the site gives us a decisive insight into archiving practices in the sixteenth century, as well as reaching the story of the middle centuries itself,” said Fabri Tiranchi. “It was first believed to be a story from the fourteenth century about Sir Join, but more examination revealed that it was part of the ancient French Merlin supplement, a very different and different text.”

Middle Ages myths King ArthurQueen Guinevir, Knight Sir Lanslot, magician Merlin, seeking the Holy Cup, copying, reading, conducting, studying, and producing them in countless copies for centuries – maybe more than a thousand years. the Bolgate courseAlso known as Langlot-Grail courseIt is one of this version in the old French language.

He wrote in the first half of the thirteenth century, and it narrates the myths of Arthur in an epic prose consisting of five parts. The shrapnel located in the Cambridge University Library is from Vulgate du Merlin suitePart of Bolgate course This tells the events that take place after the coronation of King Arthur. One of the corridors of the shrapnel tells the Christian victory over the Sixonians in the baténic battle that includes Knight Gauvin (also Gawain) with Excalibur sword. Another narrates when the convincing Merlin appears in the King Arthur Court during the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Here is the English translation:

While they were rejoicing on the feast, Kai The Senchel brought the first dish to King Arthur and Queen Guennifer, there the most handsome man has ever arrived in Christian lands. He was wearing a silk jacket flying by silk woven with gold and gemstones that sparkle with this brightness so that he lit up the entire room.

There are less than 40 copies of survival from Vulgate du Merlin suite A well -known text for scientists, and since the Middle Ages scribes copied them by hand, each of them is a unique version. One in the Cambridge University Library, for example, contains the first letters of red and blue blue. Based on this in addition to other features, researchers suggest that the text has written between 1275 and 1315.

However, “this project was not only about opening one text-it was related to the development of a methodology that could be used in other manuscripts,” Fabri Tirani concluded. “Libraries and archives around the world are facing similar challenges with fragile fragments included in the links, and our approach provides a model for arrival and non -invasive study.”

A person’s waste (or binding) may be truly treasure for someone else – after 750 years.