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  • 13th-century world map

    13th century zonal world map

    Map

    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. unknown woman who is represented kneeling before an altar with two clerics, f50r

    13th-century English Book of Hours

    Manuscript

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

  • A page from a 13th-century Greek liturgical collection written in two columns, featuring a decorated headpiece on the right.

    13th-century Menaion

    Manuscript

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

  • Alphonso Psalter

    Alphonso Psalter

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Parchment Codex

    This manuscript was begun for Prince Alphonso (b. 1273, d. 1284), son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, who was betrot...

  • A page from a 13th-century collection of Aristotle's works, featuring marginal glosses and a historiated initial depicting the burning of books before a friar and a seated king.

    Aristotle in Latin

    Manuscript

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

  • Pages from a medieval bestiary and aviary, containing text and illustrations of flying lizards or dragons, a saw-fish approaching a ship and a viper eating another creature

    Aviary and bestiary

    Manuscript

    An illustrated aviary (or text about birds) appears in this manuscript, which was made in Northern France during the 13t...

  • babylonian talmund

    Babylonian Talmud

    Manuscript

    This is an exceptionally rare item: a treasured medieval Jewish text, known as the Talmud, that somehow escaped the publ...

  • Page from a manuscript Bible, containing text, a historiated initial depicting St Jerome writing at a desk and four pairs of friars in the margins, who are balanced on golden pillars

    Bible of William of Devon

    Manuscript

    Made in England around the middle of the 13th century, this grand illustrated manuscript includes the entire Bible in on...

  • Open book image. Manuscript of Chronicon Anglicanum. Capital letters are in red ink, the rest of the text is in black ink

    Chronicon Anglicanum

    Manuscript

    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

    Circular plan of Jerusalem

    Map

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

  • A page from a 13th-century collection of the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, featuring a decorated headpiece and an epigram in gold ink.

    Collected works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

    Manuscript

    Collected works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

  • A text page from a collection of medieval historical works.

    Collection of medieval historical works

    Manuscript

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

  • Manuscript page from 'Dialogue of the Exchequer'. The is abstract red and blue decoration in the left hand margin of the page.

    Dialogue of the Exchequer

    Manuscript

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

  • Double edged sword

    Double-edged sword

    Object

    This sword is typical of those that would have been wielded by European knights in the 13th century. Weighing 1.2 kg (2 ...

  • A page from an English manuscript of William of Malmesbury’s Deeds of the Kings of the English, featuring two large decorated initials.

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

    Manuscript

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