Collection items

English alphabet collection

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

Alphabet collections were compiled with varying degrees of accuracy in medieval England. This example composed in the la...

French copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of ...

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

The great Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), is often ranked alongside the Church Fathers for his widely-cop...

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....

French copy of St Augustine’s De Trinitate

Manuscript Created date: c. 1060

St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) dedicated nearly 30 years of his life to complete his 15-book treatise De Trinitate (On th...

Gaignières Gospel Lectionary

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

François-Roger de Gaignières (b. 1642, d. 1715) was an art collector and scholar who bequeathed his manusc...

Gospel-book from Metz (first of two volumes)

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

The scriptorium at Metz flourished under one of the illegitimate sons of Charlemagne, Drogo, who was bishop from 826 to...

Gospel-book from Metz (second of two volumes)

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

The second volume of an illuminated Gospel-book produced in Metz (the first is now BnF Latin 11961), this manuscript ope...

Gradual, produced in Toulouse

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

A Gradual is a book of chants for singing in the Mass. This example was produced in the last quarter of the 11th century...

Harley Psalter

Manuscript Created date: c. 1000

The Harley Psalter is one of the great masterpieces of late Anglo-Saxon book art. It was written and decorated at Christ...

Hrabanus Maurus, De Laudibus sanctae crucis

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

The poem De Laudibus sancte crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross) is the work of Hrabanus Maurus (b. 780/781, d. 856), on...

Illuminated New Testament and Psalter from Cyprus

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

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

Illuminated Psalter from Winchester

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...

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...

Itinerary of Archbishop Sigeric

Manuscript Created date: 11th century

Travellers in the early middle ages never had maps to guide them, but sometimes had written itineraries, or lists of pla...

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...