Collection items

11th-century Gospel-book, produced in Metz

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

In the Middle Ages, manuscripts necessary for the Mass formed part of a church’s most important treasures, together with...

11th-century illuminated Psalter

Manuscript Created date: Late 11th century

Illuminated copies of the Book of Psalms were very popular in Byzantium. One group of illuminated psalters are known as ...

11th-century Qur'an from Iraq or Persia

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

This elegant, detailed Qur’an is one of the earliest dated examples of naskhi script. What is special this script? This...

Ado of Vienne, Chronicle of the Six Ages of the Wo...

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th century

The Frankish scholar and archbishop Ado of Vienne (b. c. 800, d. c. 875) produced a universal chronicle, recording world...

Anglo-Saxon calendar and computistical material

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century–2nd half of the 12th century

Farming was the basis of the early medieval economy and the occupation of the majority of the population, but agricultur...

Anglo-Saxon Mappa Mundi

Map Created date: between 1025 and 1050

This map was probably created at Canterbury between 1025 and 1050, but is probably ultimately based on a model dating fr...

Anglo-Saxon miscellany

Manuscript Created date: c.1025–50

The world beyond England was a source of continuing curiosity for the Anglo-Saxons, as is particularly evident in this m...

Antidotarium and medical recipes

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 11th century

This early collection of medical recipes includes prayers to God, the Creator of man, and of ‘all the trees, plants and ...

Bristol Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

This pocket-sized (105 x 85 mm) 11th-century manuscript contains the Greek text of the Psalms followed by the biblical O...

Caligula Troper

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

This manuscript contains an incomplete book of chants (called tropes) for religious services, made in late 11th-century...

Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartite

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

Marcus Flavius Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), was a Roman statesman and scholar, who served under Theodoric...

Cicero, Aratea with scholia

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century–1st quarter of the 12th century

Cicero’s Aratea is an astronomical treatise describing the constellations, and this work is a Latin translation of the P...

Collection of works by St Ambrose

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 11th century

St Ambrose (b. 340, d. 420), a bishop of Milan, was one of the greatest preachers of the early Church. Seven of his work...

Computus, astronomy and finger-counting

Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th century

This manuscript is a compendium of texts on the closely related subjects of computus, the science of calculating times a...

Computus texts

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

One of the most important branches of medieval learning was computus, the science of calculating times and dates using a...