Collection items

Manuscript Created date: 1st quarter of the 9th century

This collection of the letters of the Englishman Alcuin of York (b. c. 735, d. 804), is datable to the early ninth centu...

Manuscript Created date: Mid-9th century–1st half of the 10th century

During the Middle Ages, the practice of gathering different texts from various periods in the same manuscript was common...

Manuscript Created date: 1st third of the 9th century–Late 11th century

This manuscript consists of three books joined together in the medieval period at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 9th century

This volume contains De Oratore (On the Orator), a rhetorical treatise by the Roman philosopher and statesman Cicero (b....

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th century

The Greek physician, Dioscorides (b. c. 40, d. 90), wrote a treatise on the medical properties of plants, animal product...

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 9th century

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), monk and scholar of Wearmout...

Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 9th century

The only surviving work of a grammarian working in the fourth century called Nonius Marcellus, the De compendiosa doctri...

Manuscript Created date: 9th century

Commentaries by St Jerome (d. 420) on the Bible could be found in the collections of many monastic libraries in England ...

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th century

This eighth-century copy of St Jerome’s (b. 347, d. 420) Commentary on the Old Testament book of Isaiah is an early vers...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 9th century

St Jerome made several translations of the Psalms into Latin. One of these is known as the Hebraicum because it was made...

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 9th century

Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731. The work tells the story of the conversion of ...

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