Collection items

Canterbury or Anglo-Catalan Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century

The Canterbury Psalter is amongst the most lavishly illustrated of English manuscripts. The luxurious decoration is part...

Collection of medieval chronicles

Manuscript Created date: 1197–1450

Ralph de Diceto, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral from c. 1180 to c. 1199, wrote two historical chronicles, the Abbreviated C...

French Psalter composed in verse

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th century–1st quarter of the 13th century

The Book of Psalms was translated into French in the first half of the twelfth century. It became one of the most popula...

Illustrated account on cautery points and medical...

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 12th century

Large, clear drawings in this medical textbook show the application of cautery, or the drawing from the body of sick or ...

Philippe de Thaon, Comput

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th century

The earliest named French author, Philippe de Thaon, was active in the first half of the 12th century. In this volume ar...

Psalter in Anglo-Norman verse

Manuscript Created date: Late 12th century

This early twelfth-century Psalter, or book of the Psalms, was copied in an English monastery, probably Canterbury. It c...

Psalter with an Anglo-Norman gloss

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th century

After William the Conqueror’s invasion of England in 1066, a dialect of French known as Anglo-Norman became one of the d...