Two researchers from Trinity College Dublin have uncovered a long-lost manuscript containing the oldest known poem in the English language, hidden for decades in the National Central Library of Rome.

From left, Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner from Dublin’s Trinity College and Valentina Longo of Rome’s National Central Library look at a manuscript containing a rare, long-lost copy of ...

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. The newly-discovered ...

Learn more about Caedmon’s Hymn, the first poem written in English, and a new copy recently found in Rome thanks to archival sleuthing and digitization. The earliest poem written in English isn’t ...

Researchers in Ireland marveled at their computer screen as they flipped through the digitized pages of a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. Within them, they found their sought-after ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Scholars at Trinity College Dublin have identified the oldest surviving English poem, “Caedmon’s Hymn,” hidden in ...

A rare, long-lost copy of Caedmon's Hymn — the first poem ever written down in Old English — is visible in the five lines above the final line of the left page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of ...