Collection items

French copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

The Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) was a vast reference work that functioned as an encyclopaedia....

Illustrated scientific and historical works

Manuscript Created date: 1060–1063

The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was a wealthy centre of royal patronage and intellectual life jus...

Macrobius, Commentary on the Dream of Scipio

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

In around 430, the Latin grammarian and philosopher, Macrobius wrote Commentarii in somnium Scipionis, a commentary on t...

School texts

Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th century

This manuscript contains a collection of fragments from England and France in the 11th and 12th centuries. It consists o...

Virgil's collected works

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 11th century

The writings of classical and late Antique authors such as Cicero (d. 44 BC), Ovid (d. c. 18) and Prudentius (d. after 4...