Collection items

15th-century Wycliffite Bible

Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript Created date: Early 15th century

A manuscript containing the Later Version of the Middle English translation of the Bible produced by followers of the re...

Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch

Manuscript Created date: 15th century

Abraham Ibn Ezra’s commentary to the Torah (‘Five Books of Moses’ or ‘Pentateuch’). Abraham Ibn Ezra and his biblical co...

Arma Christi prayer roll

Manuscript, Scroll, Vellum roll Created date: 2nd quarter of the fifteenth century

One of ten surviving late-medieval rolls containing the Middle English prayer-poem ‘O Vernicle’. The prayer-poem ‘O V...

Astrological-medical miscellany

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 15th century

A circular diagram, now known as ‘Microcosmic Man’ or ‘Zodiac man’, appears in this miscellany of astrological and medic...

Beaufort Book of Hours

Manuscript Created date: c. 1411–1415 and c.1425–1443

The Beaufort/Beauchamp Hours is a composite volume of parts made at different times. It evolved into its present form du...

Bull of Union of the Greek and Latin Churches

Manuscript Created date: 1439

At the Council of Florence in 1439, a papal bull was issued to proclaim the union of Eastern and Western Churches. 18 co...

Carthusian miscellany

Manuscript Created date: 1460–1500

The religious order of monks and nuns known as the Carthusians were founded by St Bruno of Cologne (d. 1104) in 1084. Th...

Confessio Amantis

Manuscript Created date: 1425–1475

The Confessio Amantis by John Gower was written between 1386 and 1390. Gower was a contemporary and friend of Geoffrey C...

Dunois Hours

Manuscript Created date: c. 1439–1450

A highly decorated French Book of Hours, commissioned by Jean d’Orléans (d. 1471), Count of Dunois. Among the bo...

First book of Herodotus’ Histories

Manuscript Created date: Before 1449

This manuscript contains the first book of Herodotus’ Histories. It is written on paper and dates from some time before ...

Great Bible

Manuscript, Illuminated manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 15th century

With pages measuring over half a metre (two feet) tall, this volume is the largest manuscript Bible within the British L...

Greek medical treatises

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 15th century

This manuscript is a typical example of a medical miscellany. It consists of a range of treatises on physiology and prog...

Guide to women's health

Manuscript Created date: 15th century

A 15th-century Middle English pamphlet has been bound into this manuscript, an alphabetised handbook of medical definiti...

Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi's Commentary on Joshua

Manuscript Created date: 1400–1499

A 15th-century copy of the commentary on Joshua by the famed Karaite biblical commentator – Japheth ben Ali ha-Levi (liv...

John Lydgate’s The Lives of Saints Edmund and Frem...

Manuscript Created date: 1434–1439

In 1433–34, the 12-year-old King Henry VI spent Christmas until Easter at the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. To ce...