13th Century King Arthur manuscript found in Bristol library.

[tim]

Apparently, somebody just came across it whilst looking for something else. It's in fragments but fairly substantial ones - enough material to fill 20 pages of a modern paperback. It varies in crucial details from existing texts. Apart from anything it surprises me that stuff like this can still be discovered in a city centre library


Undiscovered Merlin tale fragments found in Bristol archives

 

[Orang Utan]

It varies in crucial details from existing texts.

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[Orang Utan]

it surprises me that stuff like this can still be discovered in a city centre library

It's pretty cool. My central city library has loads of archived old books stashed away from the public. I've been waiting to get a tour there for ages - there are things like medieval property deeds n shit apparently. A lot of the backroom space used to be a police station and there are still loads of records kept there.

 

[ringo]

Love it, a massive amount of text to have gone unnoticed