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12th-century calendar and annals
Manuscript Created date: Late 12th century–Early 13th centuryIn the Middle Ages, as today, calendars served to organise time into days and months. This fragment collection contains...
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12th-century Horologion
Manuscript Created date: 12th centuryA Horologion, or Book of Hours, contains the outline of the services (aside from those relating to the Eucharist) of the...
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12th-century miscellany of Latin texts
Manuscript Created date: Early 12th centuryThe oldest surviving copy of the History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) is found in a miscellany of late Antique an...
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Amalarius of Metz, De Ecclesiasticis officiis
Manuscript Created date: c. 1100Amalarius of Metz (d. c. 850) was one of the great writers of the Carolingian age. He participated actively in political...
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Anselm of Canterbury's theological treatises
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThis composite volume, consisting of two originally separate booklets, contains seven of Anselm’s thirteen scholarly tre...
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Askew Gospel Book
Manuscript Created date: 12th centuryThis 12th-century Gospel book (now divided into two volumes) was copied by the monk Gregory. A note at the end of the se...
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Astronomical texts
Manuscript Created date: 12th centuryAstronomy, the science of the stars, was an important part of the early medieval curriculum. This astronomical collectio...
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Baudri of Bourgueil, History of Jerusalem
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 12th centuryThe Historia Hierosolimitana (History of Jerusalem) is one of the most sophisticated accounts of the First Crusade (1095...
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Bestiary, with extracts from Gerald of Wales
Manuscript Created date: Late 12th-century–early 13th centuryA bestiary contains Christian allegorical lessons based on the characteristics and habits of animals found in nature and...
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Bilingual Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryProduced in England during the last quarter of the 12th century, this manuscript is one of only a few bilingual Psalters...
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Boethius, De institutione arithmetica
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th centuryWritten by the sixth-century Roman philosopher Boethius, De institutione arithmetica (On Arithmetic) was the principal m...
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Canterbury or Anglo-Catalan Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 12th centuryThe Canterbury Psalter is amongst the most lavishly illustrated of English manuscripts. The luxurious decoration is part...
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Cartulary of Reading Abbey
Manuscript Created date: 1190–1199The 12th-century Cartulary of Reading Abbey gives a list of works held at the medieval libraries at Reading Abbey and Le...
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Chartres Bible (first of two volumes)
Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th centuryThe 12th century saw the production of large-format ‘giant’ Bibles. In part, their popularity was due to the needs of ne...
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Chartres Bible (second of two volumes)
Manuscript Created date: Mid-12th centuryNamed after its probable place of origin, The Chartres Bible is divided in two volumes. (The first is now BnF, Latin 55)...
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