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 of Cambridge on March 25.
The manuscript is part of the Suite Vulgate du Merlin, a French-language rendering of the story of King Arthur.
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Arthur has been depicted as a legendary Briton king for several centuries, though his existence has been doubted by most historians.
In 2019, the fragile manuscript was discovered in an unlikely place in a Cambridge library – tucked in as the binding for an old book.
“The manuscript had survived the centuries after being recycled and repurposed in the 1500s as the cover for a property record from Huntingfield Manor in Suffolk,
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