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...

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...

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...

Winchester Benedictional

Manuscript Created date: Late 10th century–1st half of the 11th century

Benedictionals (from the Latin benedicere, to bless) are books that contain lists of blessings given by bishops during t...