Collection items

10th-century copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymolog...

Manuscript Created date: 10th century

The Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) became one of the most widely consulted encyclopaedic works in...

10th-century Gospel-book, produced in Metz

Manuscript Created date: Late 10th century

This opulent copy of the Gospels was perhaps made as a gift from the bishop, Thierry I (r. 965-984) to the cathedral of...

10th-century Qur’an

Manuscript Created date: 900–1000

Probably copied in Egypt, this 10th-century Qur’an is written in Eastern kufic script on vellum. The manuscript The desi...

A Tantric Ritual Manual

Manuscript Created date: 900–1000

This Tibetan Buddhist manuscript provides instructions for tantric meditation practice. These practices include visuali...

Biography on the Companions

Manuscript Created date: 900–999

This manuscript contains information about the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad and their successors by Abu Ja‘far Muh...

Booklet of the Avalokitesvara Sutra

Booklet, Manuscript Created date: c. 10th century

This booklet is one of the thousands of copies of the Lotus Sūtra that were found in Dunhuang. The scripture, which is o...

Burney Gospels

Manuscript Created date: 10th-12th century

This beautifully illuminated copy of the Greek Gospels was created in two stages. The text was copied out in the 2nd hal...

Cappadocian Gospel lectionary

Manuscript Created date: 980

The bishop Stephanos commissioned this Gospel lectionary. It was written in 980 at Ciscissa in Cappadocia. It is laid ou...

Carolingian Greek Grammar

Manuscript Created date: c 900

A range of different resources were used by Latin scholars in the 8th and 9th centuries to learn Greek. Examples of some...

Chinese Buddhist sutra on indigo-dyed paper

Scroll, Manuscript Created date: 9th–10th century

This fragment of the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra is an early example of the tradition of writing fine manuscripts in metallic...

Decorated volume of St Augustine’s writings

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th century

This collection of three works by the leading theologian of the early Church, St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430), wa...

Decorative copy of the Heart Sutra in Chinese

Scroll, Manuscript Created date: 9th–10th century

This Perfection of Wisdom sūtra, commonly called the Heart Sūtra, expounds the fundamental emptiness of all things. It i...

Earliest manuscript of Lucian

Manuscript Created date: 10th century

This is the earliest extant manuscript of the Greek author Lucian of Samosata (c. 125-180). It is from the early 10th ce...

Ecgberht Pontifical

Manuscript Created date: Mid-10th century

During the Middle Ages as now, there were a number of liturgical books that were designed to be used by specific ranks o...

Fécamp Gospels

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 10th century

The Fécamp Gospel-book was produced in the 10th century in Winchester, a royal centre in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom ...