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10th-century copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymolog...
Manuscript Created date: 10th centuryThe Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) became one of the most widely consulted encyclopaedic works in...
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10th-century Gospel-book, produced in Metz
Manuscript Created date: Late 10th centuryThis opulent copy of the Gospels was perhaps made as a gift from the bishop, Thierry I (r. 965-984) to the cathedral of...
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10th-century Qur’an
Manuscript Created date: 900–1000Probably copied in Egypt, this 10th-century Qur’an is written in Eastern kufic script on vellum. The manuscript The desi...
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A Tantric Ritual Manual
Manuscript Created date: 900–1000This Tibetan Buddhist manuscript provides instructions for tantric meditation practice. These practices include visuali...
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Biography on the Companions
Manuscript Created date: 900–999This manuscript contains information about the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad and their successors by Abu Ja‘far Muh...
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Booklet of the Avalokitesvara Sutra
Booklet, Manuscript Created date: c. 10th centuryThis booklet is one of the thousands of copies of the Lotus Sūtra that were found in Dunhuang. The scripture, which is o...
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Burney Gospels
Manuscript Created date: 10th-12th centuryThis beautifully illuminated copy of the Greek Gospels was created in two stages. The text was copied out in the 2nd hal...
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Cappadocian Gospel lectionary
Manuscript Created date: 980The bishop Stephanos commissioned this Gospel lectionary. It was written in 980 at Ciscissa in Cappadocia. It is laid ou...
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Carolingian Greek Grammar
Manuscript Created date: c 900A range of different resources were used by Latin scholars in the 8th and 9th centuries to learn Greek. Examples of some...
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Chinese Buddhist sutra on indigo-dyed paper
Scroll, Manuscript Created date: 9th–10th centuryThis fragment of the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra is an early example of the tradition of writing fine manuscripts in metallic...
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Decorated volume of St Augustine’s writings
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th centuryThis collection of three works by the leading theologian of the early Church, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), wa...
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Decorative copy of the Heart Sutra in Chinese
Scroll, Manuscript Created date: 9th–10th centuryThis Perfection of Wisdom sūtra, commonly called the Heart Sūtra, expounds the fundamental emptiness of all things. It i...
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Earliest manuscript of Lucian
Manuscript Created date: 10th centuryThis is the earliest extant manuscript of the Greek author Lucian of Samosata (c. 125-180). It is from the early 10th ce...
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Ecgberht Pontifical
Manuscript Created date: Mid-10th centuryDuring the Middle Ages as now, there were a number of liturgical books that were designed to be used by specific ranks o...
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Fécamp Gospels
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th centuryThe Fécamp Gospel-book was produced in the 10th century in Winchester, a royal centre in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom ...
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