Collection items

French illustrated copy of Gratian’s Decretum

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

The Decretum, meaning a series of decrees, was the first of six volumes of the laws of the Church, known as canon law. S...

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...

Geoffrey of Monmouth's account of King Lear in His...

Manuscript Created date: c. 1175–1200

Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100–1154) was a scholar and probably also a monk, educated in Monmouth and living in Oxford. H...

Geoffrey of Ufford’s miscellaneous compilation of...

Manuscript Created date: c. 1154

A unique compilation of Latin moral, grammatical and historical treatises was collected by Geoffrey of Ufford in the 12t...

Gerald of Wales's The Conquest of Ireland

Manuscript Created date: c.1196 -1223

John first experienced warfare in 1185 when, aged just 17, he was sent by his father, King Henry II (r. 1154–89) on an u...

Gilbert of Poitiers, Commentary on the Psalms

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

Gilbert of Poitiers (d. 1154), or Gilbert de la Porrée, was a French scholar and theologian, who lectured at the ...

Glossed Book of Ezekiel

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

This 12th-century copy of the Old Testament book of Ezekiel may have been produced at the Cistercian monastery of Founta...

Glossed Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 12th century

From an early date, Church Fathers and theologians wrote commentaries on the Bible, which survive in numerous copies. Th...

Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, Lives of the Canterbury...

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

Goscelin was a monk and writer from the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Bertin, in northern France, who wrote during the late...

Gospel-book with recycled binding

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

This copy of the Gospels was written in the 12th century in the Eastern Mediterranean. It includes decorated headpieces...

Greek Gospel lectionary with notes in Arabic

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

This Greek Gospel lectionary contains exquisite decorated headpieces, characteristic of the style of 12th-century Byzant...

Guthlac Roll

Vellum roll Created date: 1175-1215

This manuscript is known as the Guthlac Roll. It is a long, thin strip of parchment which contains 18 ink ‘roundels’ – c...

Harley Greek Gospels

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

This manuscript of the four Gospels in Greek is lavishly illuminated. It contains not only the usual four portraits of t...

Harley Trilingual Psalter

Manuscript Created date: 12th century, pre 1153

Containing the text of the psalms in parallel Greek, Latin, and Arabic versions, the Harley Trilingual Psalter bears elo...

Homiliary

Manuscript Created date: 12th century

The writings of the Christian theologians of the first millennium were hugely important for the Byzantine church. Someti...