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Ado of Vienne, Chronicle of the Six Ages of the Wo...
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centuryThe Frankish scholar and archbishop Ado of Vienne (b. c. 800, d. c. 875) produced a universal chronicle, recording world...
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Antidotarium and medical recipes
Manuscript Created date: 2nd quarter of the 11th centuryThis early collection of medical recipes includes prayers to God, the Creator of man, and of ‘all the trees, plants and ...
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Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartite
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th centuryMarcus Flavius Cassiodorus Senator (b. c. 485, d. c. 580), was a Roman statesman and scholar, who served under Theodoric...
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Cicero, Aratea with scholia
Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century–1st quarter of the 12th centuryCicero’s Aratea is an astronomical treatise describing the constellations, and this work is a Latin translation of the P...
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Collection of works by St Ambrose
Manuscript Created date: 3rd quarter of the 11th centurySt Ambrose (b. 340, d. 420), a bishop of Milan, was one of the greatest preachers of the early Church. Seven of his work...
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Computus, astronomy and finger-counting
Manuscript Created date: 11th century–12th centuryThis manuscript is a compendium of texts on the closely related subjects of computus, the science of calculating times a...
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Computus texts
Manuscript Created date: 11th centuryOne of the most important branches of medieval learning was computus, the science of calculating times and dates using a...
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Eadui Psalter
Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century–mid 12th centuryThe Eadui Psalter is named after its probable scribe and artist, Eadwig (Eadui) Basan. Eadwig was a monk at Christ Churc...
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Encomium Emmae reginae
Manuscript Created date: 11th centuryThis earliest surviving copy of the Encomium (‘Praise of Queen Emma’) was written in Latin by a monk of St-Bertin, in wh...
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English alphabet collection
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centuryAlphabet collections were compiled with varying degrees of accuracy in medieval England. This example composed in the la...
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French copy of Bede's Commentary on the Gospel of ...
Manuscript Created date: Early 11th centuryThe great Anglo-Saxon scholar, Bede (b. c. 673, d. 735), is often ranked alongside the Church Fathers for his widely-cop...
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French copy of Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies
Manuscript Created date: Early 11th centuryThe Etymologies by Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560, d. 636) was a vast reference work that functioned as an encyclopaedia....
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French copy of St Augustine’s De Trinitate
Manuscript Created date: c. 1060St Augustine (b. 354, d. 430) dedicated nearly 30 years of his life to complete his 15-book treatise De Trinitate (On th...
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Hrabanus Maurus, De Laudibus sanctae crucis
Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th centuryThe poem De Laudibus sancte crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross) is the work of Hrabanus Maurus (b. 780/781, d. 856), on...
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Illuminated Psalter from Winchester
Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th centuryIn this copy of the Psalms, made in Winchester, the first and second text divisions are enhanced by full-page images in...
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