Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text
Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution
By Joshua Sokol
https://www.science.org/content/article/galileo-s-handwritten-notes-found-ancient-astronomy-text
Galileo at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629
Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library
Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder
by Rory Carroll
Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon as an audio file at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19677
Japanese researchers look at 800-year-old books and trees for signs of extreme solar events
On Feb. 21, 1204, Japanese poet Fujiwara no Teika described in his diary a bizarre phenomenon: the northern Kyoto skies suddenly burning red at night.
by By Tomoko Otake
Full article here:
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/102/4/102_pjab.102.011/_article
Solar cycle at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=solar+cycle
As a ‘book scientist’ I work with microscopes, imaging technologies and AI to preserve ancient texts
by Christina Dinh Nguyen
Old manuscripts at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=old+manuscripts
Thirty previously unpublished verses by Empedocles discovered on a papyrus from Cairo
by University de Liege
edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-previously-unpublished-verses-empedocles-papyrus.html
Empedocles at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Empedocles
New Project Explores the Craft of Writing in the Medieval Nordic World
A major Nordic research effort is taking a fresh look at the earliest written culture in medieval Finland—by studying not only what documents say, but what they are made of.
Paleography at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=paleography
Previously Unknown Medieval Chronicle Discovered
A newly discovered chronicle from the early eighth century is giving medieval historians a rare new window onto the political shocks and religious debates that reshaped the eastern Mediterranean in the decades before and after the rise of Islam.
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/02/previously-unknown-medieval-chronicle-discovered/
More articles about Maronite Chronicle of 713:
https://medievalworlds.net/0xc1aa5572_0x004102d6.pdf
X-rays from SLAC's synchrotron reveal star maps in a centuries-old manuscript
Pages from the Codex Climaci Rescriptus palimpsest from the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, were brought to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource to recover erased astronomical text, especially fragments from Hipparchus' star catalog.
Hipparchus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Hipparchus
Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI
Medievalists can now access automated transcriptions of 32,763 digitised medieval manuscripts, produced in just four months as part of a project called CoMMA—a large-scale corpus designed to make manuscript texts searchable and analysable at a scale that would be impossible to tackle by hand.
https://www.medievalists.net/2026/01/32000-medieval-manuscripts-transcribed-using-ai/
Original paper:
https://inria.hal.science/hal-05299220
The CoMMA website:
https://comma.inria.fr/homepage
5 Dazzling Medieval Manuscripts That Have Outlasted Empires
These manuscripts stand out for their artistry, craftsmanship, and historical significance.
by Tim Brinkhof
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/illuminated-medieval-manuscripts-to-know-2710634
Old manuscripts at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=old+manuscripts
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