Collection items

John Cassian, Collationes

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

The main text of this 11th-century manuscript from the monastery of St Wandrille in Normandy is John Cassian’s Collation...

Law-code of King Cnut

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...

Lectionary of St-Maur-des-Fossés

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

St Maurus (d. 584) is one of the most famous disciples of St Benedict of Nursia (d. c. 550), the author of the Benedicti...

Life and miracles of St Germain

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

Texts devoted to the lives and miracles of different saints were collected and widely read during the medieval period. C...

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...

Old English Hexateuch

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...

Old English Illustrated Herbal

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...

Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

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

Qur'an in Eastern Kufic Script

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...

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...

St Augustine, Confessiones

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 ...

St Augustine, Contra Faustum Manichaeum

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

St Augustine was born in Tagaste, now Souk-Ahras in Algeria, in 354. As a young man he was attracted to the ideas of Man...

St Augustine, De civitate Dei

Manuscript Created date: c. 1060

St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) composed De civitate Dei (The City of God) in response to an attack on Rome by the Visigot...

St Bertin Gospels

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

From its foundation in the seventh century, the abbey of St Bertin in St Omer was one of the most powerful abbeys in the...

St Denis Missal

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

During the 11th and the 12th centuries, a new kind of text appeared for use in the liturgy – the Missal, which combined ...