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Manuscript Created date: Mid-9th century

Made in the third quarter of the ninth century, this manuscript contains a collection of devotional texts such as prayer...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 9th century

The copying and decoration of this Gospel-book from Tours represent a remarkable artistic achievement. As is characteris...

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 9th century

This collection of the letters of the Englishman Alcuin of York (b. c. 735, d. 804), is datable to the early ninth centu...

Manuscript Created date: 1st third of the 9th century–Late 11th century

This manuscript consists of three books joined together in the medieval period at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 9th century

This volume contains De Oratore (On the Orator), a rhetorical treatise by the Roman philosopher and statesman Cicero (b....

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 9th century

This Gospel-book, made in the third quarter of the ninth century, is an example of the Franco-Saxon style of decoration...

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 9th century

Throughout the Middle Ages, stories of saints’ lives were extremely popular, as witnessed by the many copies that surviv...

Manuscript Created date: 9th century

Commentaries by St Jerome (d. 420) on the Bible could be found in the collections of many monastic libraries in England ...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 9th century

St Jerome made several translations of the Psalms into Latin. One of these is known as the Hebraicum because it was made...

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th century

Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731. The work tells the story of the conversion of ...

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