Leonardo’s ‘Codex Atlanticus’ Is Complete for the First Time in 400 Years

The Galileo Museum's Leonardotheka 2.0 reunites the artist's landmark manuscript with the 550 pages a 16th-century sculptor cut from it.

by Vittoria Benzine

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/leonardotheka-da-vinci-codex-2779022

LeonardoThek@:
https://teche.museogalileo.it/leonardo/home/index.html?_gl=1*170qis2*_ga*MTQzMzk1MDE0Ny4xNzgwOTk5Nzk3*_ga_MR6699DG9Z*czE3ODA5OTk3OTckbzEkZzAkdDE3ODA5OTk3OTckajYwJGwwJGgw

Books by Galileo at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39014

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The Bayeux Tapestry tells only the winner’s story – but the other side can be found in old English texts

The story of the losers is full of meaningful silences and William of Normandy’s terror.

by Catherine Clarke

https://theconversation.com/the-bayeux-tapestry-tells-only-the-winners-story-but-the-other-side-can-be-found-in-old-english-texts-283339?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2022%202026%20-%203777938688&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2022%202026%20-%203777938688+CID_92df80263ee542f0b2508c19d4ddc106&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=The%20Bayeux%20Tapestry%20tells%20only%20the%20winners%20story%20%20but%20the%20other%20side%20can%20be%20found%20in%20old%20English%20texts

Bayeux tapestry at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4445

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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

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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

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/29/lost-copy-of-seventh-century-poem-old-english-discovered-rome-library-dublin

Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon as an audio file at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19677

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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

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/10/japan/science-health/fujiwara-no-teika-diary-solar-storms/

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

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As a ‘book scientist’ I work with microscopes, imaging technologies and AI to preserve ancient texts

by Christina Dinh Nguyen

https://theconversation.com/as-a-book-scientist-i-work-with-microscopes-imaging-technologies-and-ai-to-preserve-ancient-texts-278154

Old manuscripts at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=old+manuscripts

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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

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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.

https://www.medievalists.net/2026/03/new-project-explores-the-craft-of-writing-in-the-medieval-nordic-world/

Paleography at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=paleography

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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

https://www.academia.edu/145038749/Recovering_Syro_Chalcedonian_Historical_Memory_The_Maronite_Chronicle_of_713_and_its_Manuscript_Transmission

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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.

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-29-x-rays-slacs-synchrotron-reveal-star-maps-centuries-old-manuscript

Hipparchus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Hipparchus

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