Collection items

10th-century copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymolog...

Manuscript Created date: 10th century

The Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) became one of the most widely consulted encyclopaedic works in...

10th-century Gospel-book, produced in Metz

Manuscript Created date: Late 10th century

This opulent copy of the Gospels was perhaps made as a gift from the bishop, Thierry I (r. 965-984) to the cathedral of...

Aldhelm on Virginity

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter 10th century–1st half of 11th century

This manuscript contains the prose version of Anglo-Saxon author Aldhelm’s De uirginitate (‘In Praise of Virginity’). It...

Aldhelm's Riddles

Manuscript Created date: Late 10th century – early 11th century

Aldhelm’s Latin verse Enigmata or Riddles was widely read and studied in the Middle Ages, both in England and on the Con...

Boethius in Latin

Manuscript Created date: c. 970

The Roman senator and philosopher, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, was born in Italy in 476. He was an acclaimed aut...

Bosworth Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the tenth century

Like the majority of biblical books in Western Christendom, the texts of this Psalter are in Latin. They comprise one of...

Decorated volume of St Augustine’s writings

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th century

This collection of three works by the leading theologian of the early Church, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), wa...

Ecgberht Pontifical

Manuscript Created date: Mid-10th century

During the Middle Ages as now, there were a number of liturgical books that were designed to be used by specific ranks o...

Felix's Life of Guthlac

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of 10th century

This manuscript is a copy of the Life of Guthlac by the East Anglian monk, Felix. Falling within the genre of hagiograph...

Fécamp Gospels

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th century

The Fécamp Gospel-book was produced in the 10th century in Winchester, a royal centre in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom ...

Hrabanus Maurus, The Invention of Languages

Manuscript Created date: 10th century

The so-called De inventione linguarum (The Invention of Languages) presents the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and runic alphabet...

Illustrated Rule of St Benedict

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th century

This decorative letter opens the Prologue to the Rule of St Benedict, a very influential book of instructions, which set...

Narratio Metrica de Sancti Swithuno

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th century

The Narratio Metrica de Sancti Swithuno by Wulfstan of Winchester is the longest surviving Latin poem written in England...

New Minster charter

Manuscript Created date: 966

Monasteries were some of the largest landowners in the early kingdom of England, so any changes to them had a wide econo...

Noyon Sacramentary

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 10th century

Produced at Noyon Cathedral in the late 10th century, this manuscript is a Sacramentary—a collection of all the texts ne...