Armenia Is About To Put Its Ancient Manuscripts Online For Free

For many Armenians survivors, the easily hidden manuscripts were the only remnant of their nation that they were able to smuggle to safety.

By Amos Chapple

https://www.rferl.org/a/armenia-manuscripts-online-database-matenadaran-project-scans/33482728.html

Armenia at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=armenia

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Spiral into the ‘golden ratio’ – and separate the myths from the maths

Named for the Italian mathematician Leonardo Bonacci (c1170-1240), the Fibonacci sequence refers to a numerical set that, usually starting with zero and one, adds the previous two integers together to arrive at the next (0,1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, etc).

https://aeon.co/videos/spiral-into-the-golden-ratio-and-separate-the-myths-from-the-maths

More information about the Fibonacci sequence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence

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A 600-year-old Chaucer mystery may finally be solved

A medieval sermon packed with 'memes' and simple spelling mistakes could explain a baffling line in 'The Canterbury Tales.'

By Andrew Paul

https://www.popsci.com/science/chaucer-canterbury-tales-mystery-solved/

Cantebury Tales at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Canterbury+Tales

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This 2,200-Year-Old Chinese Medical Text May Be The Oldest Human Anatomy Chart In History

By Natasha Ishak

The discovery of the text written on silk sheds light on the significant advances in medicine that led to the development of acupuncture in ancient China.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/china-mawangdui-medical-manuscripts?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atinewsletter&[email protected]

Ancient Medicine at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4630

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Ireland’s Oldest and Largest Medieval Book Shrine Goes on Public View for the First Time

By Kate Mothes

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/lough-kinale-book-shrine/

Ireland at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=ireland

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The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably did not know about the Medieval masterpiece

Scholars have speculated for centuries about the meaning behind the 15th-century codex and its peculiar illustrations

By Garry Shaw

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/05/the-voynich-manuscript-revealed-five-things-you-probably-did-not-know-about-the-medieval-masterpiece

More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript

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Lost for 400 Years: Researcher Discover Hidden Copy of Shakespeare Sonnet

By University of Oxford

https://scitechdaily.com/lost-for-400-years-researcher-discover-hidden-copy-of-shakespeare-sonnet/

Full article by Leah S Veronese is available here:
https://academic.oup.com/res/advance-article/doi/10.1093/res/hgaf002/7997398?login=false

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A surprising number of medieval scribes were women

New research estimates around 8,000 of those manuscripts could still exist today.

By Andrew Paul

https://www.popsci.com/science/medieval-women-book-scribes/

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A Lost Bit of the Story of Merlin and Arthur Has Been Found at Cambridge

By Molly Templeton

https://reactormag.com/a-lost-bit-of-the-story-of-merlin-and-arthur-has-been-found-at-cambridge/

You can explore the manuscript for yourself at Cambridge Digital Libraries:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/merlinfragment/1

Books about Merlin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=merlin&submit_search=Search

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