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...

Alphonso Psalter

Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Parchment Codex Created date: c. 1284–1316

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

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...

Aviary and bestiary

Manuscript Created date: 1250–1300

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

Babylonian Talmud

Manuscript Created date: 1290–1309

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

Bible of William of Devon

Manuscript Created date: c. 1275–1300

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

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...

Double-edged sword

Object Created date: c. 1250-1330

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

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...