Collection items

Manuscript Created date: 690–716

Abbot Ceolfrith (d. 716) of Wearmouth-Jarrow in Northumbria commissioned the production of three massive, single-volume...

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 8th century

Gospel readings are a fundamental part of the Mass, and therefore Gospel-books were among the most essential possessions...

Manuscript Created date: c. 700

The monastery of Echternach, now in Luxembourg, was founded by the Northumbrian monk, Willibrord (b. 658, d. 739), in 69...

Manuscript Created date: 8th century

This manuscript was used by scholars in 8th-century western Europe to learn Greek. The bulk of the volume is taken up by...

Manuscript Created date: 8th–9th century

This small volume contains fragments of hymns written in the 8th and 9th centuries at the Monastery of St Catherine on M...

Manuscript Created date: c. 700

The Lindisfarne Gospels has long been acclaimed as the most spectacular manuscript to survive from Anglo-Saxon England....

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 8th century

Pope Gregory the Great (d. 604) is one of the Latin Doctors of the Church. Amongst his many influential works is a comme...

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 8th century

Gregory the Great (b. c. 540, d. 604) was a reformer of the early Church, whose writings offered practical wisdom and mo...

Manuscript Created date: 8th century CE

This manuscript, now incomplete, would have originally possessed some 1,000 folios. It contains the Śatasāhasrikā Praj&n...

Manuscript Created date: 700–799 CE

The Ma’il Qur’an is one of the very earliest Qur’ans in the world. Why is it so important? It dates back to the 8th cen...

Manuscript Created date: 775–825

The earliest named English poet was a cowherd named Cædmon who lived at the Abbey of Whitby. We know about this man beca...

Manuscript Created date: 758

This contract on papyrus is dated 14 August 758 CE and records the sale of a building by Senuthius, son of Enoch, to Aar...

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