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- Art (3)
- Art and Illumination (5)
- Christian Religion and Belief (9)
- Christianity (2)
- History and learning (13)
- Illuminated texts (3)
- Islam (2)
- Living Texts (1)
- Making manuscripts (8)
- Medieval manuscript collections today (1)
- Medieval origins (2)
- Religion (3)
- Sacred texts (2)
- Science and nature (12)
- The makers of Greek manuscripts (4)
- The origins of writing (1)
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Illuminated New Testament and Psalter from Cyprus
Manuscript Created date: 11th centuryIn the 11th and 12th centuries, a distinctive subgroup of manuscripts appeared, mostly originating in Cyprus or Palestin...
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Illuminated Psalter from Winchester
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centuryIn this copy of the Psalms, made in Winchester, the first and second text divisions are enhanced by full-page images in...
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Law-code of King Cnut
Manuscript Created date: 1000-99This is the longest Anglo-Saxon law code, issued by King Cnut (reigned 1016–35) with the advice of his counsellors. This...
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Old English Hexateuch
Manuscript Created date: 1000–99The Old English Hexateuch provides invaluable evidence of an English person’s experience of the Bible in their own langu...
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Old English Illustrated Herbal
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 11th centuryMedieval medicine often used plant- and animal-based remedies. This is the only illustrated collection of such remedies...
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Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
Manuscript Created date: 11th centuryPriscian was a Latin grammarian and scholar, active in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) at the beginning of the six...
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Qur'an in Eastern Kufic Script
Manuscript Created date: 11th Century–12th centuryAn 11th- or 12th-century Qur’an, written on parchment on paper in an Eastern kufic script, showing important development...
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St Augustine, Confessiones
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th centurySt Augustine’s (b. 354, d. 430) autobiographical work, the Confessions, was a key text that was widely read and studied ...
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St John Chrysostom, Commentaries on the Pauline Ep...
Manuscript Created date: 11th-12th centuryMany of the Church Fathers wrote detailed exegetical studies of individual books of the Bible. These treatises were impo...
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The Reckoning of Time
Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th century‘The Reckoning of Time’ was a very influential work composed by the monk Bede (d. 735) in 725. This manuscript is one of...
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Ælfwine’s Prayerbook
Manuscript Created date: 3rd decade of the 11th centuryMany manuscripts reveal a surprising amount about their makers and owners. One such is this small prayer book, which mea...
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