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Elizabeth I
Why didn't Queen Elizabeth l marry? A handwritten speech offers clues as to why
Sumer Is Icumen In
How did a secular song end up being written and preserved by medieval monks?
The Tracking Satyrs
The recovery and restoration of Sophocles' lost play The Tracking Satyrs
Leonardo da Vinci
Why were Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks written backwards?
Diamond Sutra
The remarkable discovery of the world's earliest printed book
The Lindisfarne Gospels
The history of one of the most beautiful medieval books in Britain
Codex Sinaiticus
The text of Codex Sinaiticus, a hand-written ancient copy of the Greek Bible
Beowulf
The history of the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf
