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13th century zonal world map
Map Created date: 13th centuryThis 13th-century world map, though only 8 centimetres across, is more than a simple diagram. The southern (upper) hemis...
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13th-century English Book of Hours
Manuscript Created date: Late 13th centuryAn early Book of Hours from England. Popular in the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, Books of Hours were pra...
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13th-century Menaion
Manuscript Created date: 13th centuryIn the Greek church, the Menaion is the book containing prayers and hymns for the fixed feasts of the liturgical calenda...
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Alphonso Psalter
Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Parchment Codex Created date: c. 1284–1316This manuscript was begun for Prince Alphonso (b. 1273, d. 1284), son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, who was betrot...
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Aristotle in Latin
Manuscript Created date: 13th centuryThis 13th-century manuscript contains Gerard of Cremona's (c. 1114-87) translations of Aristotelian works on natural phi...
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Aviary and bestiary
Manuscript Created date: 1250–1300An illustrated aviary (or text about birds) appears in this manuscript, which was made in Northern France during the 13t...
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Babylonian Talmud
Manuscript Created date: 1290–1309This is an exceptionally rare item: a treasured medieval Jewish text, known as the Talmud, that somehow escaped the publ...
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Bible of William of Devon
Manuscript Created date: c. 1275–1300Made in England around the middle of the 13th century, this grand illustrated manuscript includes the entire Bible in on...
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Chronicon Anglicanum
Manuscript Created date: 1200-99After Archbishop Hubert Walter’s death in 1205 and the rejection of other nominees to the see of Canterbury, the monks o...
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Circular plan of Jerusalem
Map Created date: 13th centuryMost medieval plans of Jerusalem give it circular walls (it was actually four-sided) and were probably of classical orig...
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Collected works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Manuscript Created date: 13th centuryCollected works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
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Collection of medieval historical works
Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 13th centuryThis volume contains a variety of historical and legendary material, including the Trojan War, Alexander the Great and t...
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Dialogue of the Exchequer
Manuscript Created date: 1200-99Richard fitz Nigel (1130-98), Bishop of Ely and author of The Dialogue of the Exchequer, has been described as a model c...
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Double-edged sword
Object Created date: c. 1250-1330This sword is typical of those that would have been wielded by European knights in the 13th century. Weighing 1.2 kg (2 ...
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English copy of William of Malmesbury’s Deeds of t...
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 13th century–c. 1291William of Malmesbury’s (b. c. 1095, d. c. 1143) Deeds of the Kings of the English focuses on political events and ruler...
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