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Manuscript Created date: 11th century

In the 11th and 12th centuries, a distinctive subgroup of manuscripts appeared, mostly originating in Cyprus or Palestin...

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

In this copy of the Psalms, made in Winchester, the first and second text divisions are enhanced by full-page images in...

Manuscript Created date: 1000-99

This is the longest Anglo-Saxon law code, issued by King Cnut (reigned 1016–35) with the advice of his counsellors. This...

Manuscript Created date: 1000–99

The Old English Hexateuch provides invaluable evidence of an English person’s experience of the Bible in their own langu...

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

Medieval medicine often used plant- and animal-based remedies. This is the only illustrated collection of such remedies...

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

Priscian was a Latin grammarian and scholar, active in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) at the beginning of the six...

Manuscript Created date: 11th Century–12th century

An 11th- or 12th-century Qur’an, written on parchment on paper in an Eastern kufic script, showing important development...

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

St Augustine’s (b. 354, d. 430) autobiographical work, the Confessions, was a key text that was widely read and studied ...

Manuscript Created date: 11th-12th century

Many of the Church Fathers wrote detailed exegetical studies of individual books of the Bible. These treatises were impo...

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...

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

Many manuscripts reveal a surprising amount about their makers and owners. One such is this small prayer book, which mea...

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