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Digital Scan Uncovers Lost Caedmon Hymn in Rome Manuscript

4/30/2026

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Digitisation of a Rome manuscript uncovered the previously lost seventh-century Old English poem Caedmon’s Hymn.
Researchers Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner of Trinity College Dublin identified the poem, which appears in full Old English within the manuscript’s main body, unlike earlier marginal Latin copies.
The finding was published this week in the open-access journal Early Medieval England and its Neighbours (Cambridge University Press).

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Digitisation of a Rome manuscript uncovered the previously lost seventh-century Old English poem Caedmon’s Hymn.
Researchers Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner of Trinity College Dublin identified the poem, which appears in full Old English within the manuscript’s main body, unlike earlier marginal Latin copies.
The finding was published this week in the open-access journal Early Medieval England and its Neighbours (Cambridge University Press).