Collection items

13th century zonal world map

Map Created date: 13th century

This 13th-century world map, though only 8 centimetres across, is more than a simple diagram. The southern (upper) hemis...

13th-century English Book of Hours

Manuscript Created date: Late 13th century

An early Book of Hours from England. Popular in the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, Books of Hours were pra...

13th-century Menaion

Manuscript Created date: 13th century

In the Greek church, the Menaion is the book containing prayers and hymns for the fixed feasts of the liturgical calenda...

Aristotle in Latin

Manuscript Created date: 13th century

This 13th-century manuscript contains Gerard of Cremona's (c. 1114-87) translations of Aristotelian works on natural phi...

Chronicon Anglicanum

Manuscript Created date: 1200-99

After Archbishop Hubert Walter’s death in 1205 and the rejection of other nominees to the see of Canterbury, the monks o...

Circular plan of Jerusalem

Map Created date: 13th century

Most medieval plans of Jerusalem give it circular walls (it was actually four-sided) and were probably of classical orig...

Collected works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Manuscript Created date: 13th century

Collected works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Collection of medieval historical works

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

This volume contains a variety of historical and legendary material, including the Trojan War, Alexander the Great and t...

Dialogue of the Exchequer

Manuscript Created date: 1200-99

Richard fitz Nigel (1130-98), Bishop of Ely and author of The Dialogue of the Exchequer, has been described as a model c...

English copy of William of Malmesbury’s Deeds of t...

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 13th century–c. 1291

William of Malmesbury’s (b. c. 1095, d. c. 1143) Deeds of the Kings of the English focuses on political events and ruler...

Gospel lectionary from Pentrochonte

Manuscript Created date: 13th century

This fine 13th-century Gospel lectionary was owned by and likely created at the Monastery of St Nicholas in Pentrochonte...

Greek–Latin Psalter from Paris

Manuscript Created date: 1220s

Created in 1220s Paris, this is a rare example of a Greek manuscript from western Europe in the high Middle Ages. It con...

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...

Hebrew Charters describing Jews in Medieval Englan...

Manuscript, Charter Created date: 1221 - 80

Jews occupied a precarious position in medieval English society. They performed an invaluable service as moneylenders, a...

Illuminated Gospels from Thessaloniki

Manuscript Created date: 1291–1292

This manuscript, made in 1291 or 1292 in Thessaloniki, is an important example of Byzantine illumination from mainland G...