Collection items

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

Manuscript

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

Decorated volume of St Augustine’s writings

Manuscript

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

Fécamp Gospels

Manuscript

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

Hrabanus Maurus, The Invention of Languages

Manuscript

The so-called De inventione linguarum (The Invention of Languages) presents the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and runic alphabet...

Prudentius, Psychomachia (War of the Soul)

Manuscript

The Psychomachia (War of the Soul) is a work of allegory in which seven Virtues and seven Vices battle for possession of...