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  • Sloane MS 1977, ff. 49v-50r

    Mattheus Platearius, Circa instans

    Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 14th century

    Mattheus Platearius (active during the 12th century) was a physician from the medical school of Salerno, near Naples in...

  • Unrolled Torah scroll

    Pentateuch scroll with silk mantle

    Manuscript, Scroll, Textile Created date: scroll c. 1300–1399

    A 14th-century Torah Scroll from the Iberian Peninsula, complete with mantle. What is the Torah Scroll? The Torah Scroll...

  • Beginning of Genesis, with the Targum in the right column and Rashi’s commentary in the left column, and upper and lower margins, Pentateuch, Harley MS 5709, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project, British Library

    Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary and Targum Onke...

    Manuscript Created date: 1300-1340 CE

    The earliest surviving glossed Bibles from Ashkenaz (Franco-German lands) date from the 13th century CE. They show an or...

  • Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, Or 14980

    Perfection of Wisdom Sutra

    Manuscript Created date: 14th century

    Two leaves from early West-Tibetan ‘Perfection of Wisdom’ manuscripts. What is the ‘Perfection of Wisdom’? The ‘Perfect...

  • Portolan chart by Pietro Vesconte.

    Portolan chart of western Europe by Pietro Vescont...

    Map Created date: 1310-30

    Portolan charts were primarily of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, but were soon extended to include Europe's Atlantic c...

  • Portrait of King John hunting

    Portrait of King John hunting

    Manuscript, Illustration Created date: 1300-99

    This famous image shows King John, hunting on horseback in the forest. The crowned king sits on a grey horse, while his...

  • Surgical procedures

    Roger Frugardi, Chirurgia

    Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 14th century

    The longest text in this illustrated medical compendium is a French translation of the Chirurgia (Surgery), a practical...

  • Statute book containing Magna Carta issued by King John and Henry III

    Statute book containing Magna Carta issued by King...

    Manuscript, Charter Created date: c. 1300 - 1399

    During the 13th and 14th centuries, Magna Carta was frequently copied into chronicles and collections of charters and st...

  • carpet page and first page of text from a Qur'an. The general effect of the carpet page design is that of a rich tapestry, based on a 10-angled, star-shaped medallion with gold and white outlines extending to form a trellis of overlapping polygons, which alternate in gold and blue.

    Sultan Barquq’s Qur’an

    Manuscript Created date: 14th century CE

    This is part nine of an Egyptian Qur’an in thirty volumes, written in rayhani script. It was copied in the 14th century ...

  • The burial of King John, from a collection of Romances in French verse

    The burial of King John, from a collection of Roma...

    Manuscript, Illustration Created date: 1300-99

    King John’s body was taken to Worcester Cathedral for burial, in accordance with his wishes. This later medieval image s...

  • Duke of Sussex German pentateuch Add MS 15282

    The Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch

    Manuscript, Illumination, Illuminated manuscript Created date: 1300–1324

    This page of the Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch shows the kind of marginal decoration often painted in Hebrew mediev...

  • The French conquest of Normandy in Grandes Chroniques de France

    The French conquest of Normandy in Grandes Chroniq...

    Manuscript, Illustration Created date: 1300-99

    When John succeeded to the throne of England in 1199, he also came into possession of his family’s ancestral territories...

  • Images from the Book of Genesis in the Golden Haggadah, Catalonia, c. 1320 CE, The Golden Haggadah, Add MS 27210, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project, British Library

    The Golden Haggadah

    Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript, Illumination Created date: c. 1320-1330

    The haggadah is the service book used in Jewish households on Passover Eve to celebrate the Israelites' deliverance from...

  • The Hispano-Moresque Hagadah: Haggadah for Passover according to the Spanish rite, Or 2737, Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project, British Library

    The Hispano-Moresque Haggadah

    Manuscript, Illumination, Illuminated manuscript Created date: 1275–1324

    The haggadah is the service book used in Jewish households on Passover Eve to celebrate the Israelites' deliverance from...

  • Chronicle of Rochester Cathedral

    The Rochester Chronicle

    Manuscript Created date: 14th century

    The manuscript 'The Rochester Chronicle' is a version of another popular chronicle called the 'Flowers of the Histories'...